March 2011
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A Sea of Words - Jessica Crispin →
Very thoughtful piece about writing and publishing. I feel like it can almost be a response to the offensive author made famous on the internet the other day. For some reason, I just really responded to this.
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Schulz’s second compilation of stories, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, was a lingering string of connected stories, indeed, connected to his first published work, Street of Crocodiles, (AKA Cinnamon Shops). These stories bled together and built on each other, like the shadows that pervade much of Schulz’s artwork. Shadowy is a good way to describe the stories, actually,...
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“A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY”
– Thomas Pynchon - Gravity’s Rainbow
A. Why have I waited so long to read this?
B. Thomas Pynchon does not mess around.
The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That... →
doree:
Guy Lawson, “The Stoner Arms Dealers,” Rolling Stone
Jessica Hopper, “Wild Flag: An Eight-Part Examination,” Nashville Scene
S.J. Culver, “On Expectations (And a Writer’s Lack of Shame),” The Awl
Ben Kafka, “Pushing Paper,” Lapham’s Quarterly
Nitsuh Abebe, “SXSW Diary: Pitchfork’s…
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“When I want to imagine her, I can only evoke one meaningless detail: the chapped...”
– Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
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Top 20 book covers of 2011 so far →
The Awl: On Expectations and a Writer's Lack of... →
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How Should A Person Be?
How Should A Person Be? For the first time in my life I’m not sure if I think a book is good. How Should A Person Be? was extremely readable, and sometimes, you just love a readable book. But in the case of Sheila Heti, I remained aloof, skeptical almost, of the plot and the characters.
When I first learned of Sheila Heti, and I read her excerpt, I was head over heels. I felt that...
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath (via kari-shma)
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Esquire review of DFW's THE PALE KING →
And let’s state this clearly: You should read The Pale King. Read more: http://www.esquire.com/fiction/book-review/the-pale-king-review-0411-5402611#ixzz1GmDJEoXh
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Orange Prize longlist announced! →
Swamplandia and Room- two books I’ve been hankering after.
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Flathead The peculiar genius of Thomas L.... →
The most epic review of all time. Never read Friedman before, but this review is endlessly amusing.
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Remainder
I felt as though I was in a trance when I was reading Remainder, by Thomas McCarthy. McCarthy’s novel was fluid, upsetting, and utterly singular.
I read a review a while back that Zadie Smith wrote about Neverland and Remainder, and in a way I think that review has been inhibiting my writing about Remainder. Zadie Smith wrote so well and critically, I felt I had nothing to add to the...
BACKBONE - By David Foster Wallace →
The New Yorker.
The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2010 →
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Goodnight Dune →
In the great no-room
There was a floating baron
and a view of two moons
and a picture of—
Shai-Halud bursting out of the dune.
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All the Living
C.E. Morgan’s All the Living was a delicate, feminine, ornate character study. This book built in intensity, beginning quietly and ending with almost ferocious emotion.
Aloma, the protagonist, was a layered character; confused by sudden responsibility and proximity to her lover, she starts cooking and cleaning, actions she never undertook before. She misses her old life sometimes, always...
