Year in Reading
December 6, 2011
A Year in Reading: Deborah Eisenberg 1
by Deborah Eisenberg
No description of the book’s content nor speculation on its purposes can begin to suggest the pleasure of reading it.
December 6, 2011
A Year In Reading: Chad Harbach 1
by Chad Harbach
It’s a tender comedy tinged with the absurdity of life, the thrill of sociability, and the imminence of death, which I guess is exactly the kind of book I like.
December 5, 2011
A Year in Reading: Geoff Dyer 1
by Geoff Dyer
At the risk of telling American readers something they already know all about, Fox Butterfield’s book is brilliant and devastating.
December 5, 2011
A Year in Reading: Benjamin Hale 7
by Benjamin Hale
Frantz Fanon was not punching the clock. He was not writing a book because he was a writer and writers write books. He was writing with dire passion, with an intensity of hate that only true love can birth.
December 5, 2011
A Year in Reading: Hannah Pittard 0
by Hannah Pittard
I took it on a prayer that it would live up to the novel I remembered it being. But I was wrong. It was better.
December 4, 2011
A Year in Reading: Scott Esposito (Conversational Reading) 6
by Scott Esposito
It is that same haze of thought one feels when hovering around an idea that remains unelucidatable. It is two hours of serpentine meditation, that same maddening dart and weave between significance and insignificance, transcendence and babble.
