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The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (Hardcover)
by Padgett Powell
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Everything I Write is True, But So What?: Edouard Levé's Autoportrait 4
If you’re looking for a way to ruin a perfectly good first date, do the following: lean forward in your chair and, gazing urgently across the dinner table into the eyes of the near-perfect stranger sitting opposite, ask them to tell you something true about themselves.
Literature is a Manner of Completing Ourselves: A Reader's Year 17
If I were an addict, I would get high and while high, presumably, worry about where I was to get my next fix. Reading is not all that different, I think. As a reader, I am always looking over the binding thinking about the next read, in some instances, longing for it. Some books, like some highs, are better than others. But even with not-so-good books, I will come back to the drug, seeking the next high.
The Millions Top Ten: June 2010 5
With four books heading to the Hall of Fame, that means we have four new books landing on the list, ranging from hard-boiled Scandinavian thrillers to historical fiction in 18th century Japan to a 12-year-old literary biography with a twist.
The Millions Top Ten: May 2010 0
Tinkers debuts and The Corrections graduates. Plus, a controversial new number one.
The Millions Top Ten: April 2010 3
Franzen stays on top. Sebald to the Hall of Fame. Tolstoy debuts.
The Millions Top Ten: March 2010 2
David Mitchell graduates to the Hall of Fame, Michael Lewis debuts, and we have a new number one.
The Millions Top Ten: February 2010 0
Cloud Atlas keeps the top spot. Reality Hunger debuts.
The Millions Top Ten: January 2010 1
Cloud Atlas keeps the top spot. Stoner and Wolf Hall debut.
The Millions Top Ten: December 2009 2
Four books debut on the list: Powell, McCann, Pevear and Volokhonsky, and Bouillier. David Mitchell vaults into the top spot.
A Year in Reading: Rick Moody 3
Is it really a novel? Or is it a prose-poem? Or is it a work of non-fiction written by deranged, and eccentric genius somewhere out in the deep woods of the South, while slapping a mosquitoes and lamenting, generally, a life lived on the outside?
A Year in Reading: Jonathan Lethem 2
Padgett Powell's The Interrogative Mood is a supreme literary stunt.