Quick Hits
May 6, 2010
Confined By Pages: The Joy of Unread Books 50
by Kirsty Logan
I often find that the book I have read is somehow not as exciting as the book I had imagined reading.
April 28, 2010
The Novella is Alive and Well and Living in Canada 8
by Andrew Saikali
While writers have never stopped writing short forms of fiction, Quattro is to be commended for giving this literary form some formal shape and focus.
April 28, 2010
Holden and Middlemarch in Windhoek 7
by Cindy Jane Cho
Complete with phonies, small things that men love about women, and the mid-1800s equivalent of bathroom graffiti, Middlemarch is a book that I think Holden Caulfield would have grudgingly found acceptable.
April 26, 2010
Drifted toward Dragons: Utopia Today 13
by J.C. Hallman
It’s fair to characterize the last five hundred years of human civilization as a history of not-getting-the-joke of Utopia.
April 13, 2010
The Road: A Comedic Translation (Part 5) 1
by Jacob Lambert
Yes, said the nameless man to the nameless child, gazing out at the ruin caused by some massive anonymous catastrophe. Thats how we keep things interesting.
March 29, 2010
An Exclusive Look at the Cover of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom 12
by C. Max Magee
We learned recently that Jonthan Franzen’s long-awaited follow-up to The Corrections, a new novel called Freedom, will arrive at the end of August.