Year in Reading
December 21, 2011
A Year in Reading: Ellis Avery 1
by Ellis Avery
Each novel I read made me want to send the author a fan letter, but I held back, because I felt like I ought to read all of her books before I bothered her. As it happened, she died halfway through my reading jag.
December 21, 2011
A Year In Reading: Belinda McKeon 2
by Belinda Mckeon
My favorite pieces were those which brilliantly dissected the various sulks, funks, and paranoias of being a writer who moans about doing writerly things – not least among them writing itself.
December 20, 2011
A Year in Reading: Brooke Hauser 2
by Brooke Hauser
We read to survive in the world, but sometimes we just like reading about survival.
December 20, 2011
A Year in Reading: Kevin Brockmeier 3
by Kevin Brockmeier
Let me concentrate on two authors whose names I had never heard before this year.
December 20, 2011
A Year in Reading: Jean-Christophe Valtat 2
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Imagine Ibsen’s Peer Gynt rewritten four-handedly by a bisexual Joyce and a mystical Musil, and you’re about halfway there.
December 19, 2011
A Year in Reading: Natasha Wimmer 3
by Natasha Wimmer
Lately I seem to find it impossible to spend more than half an hour at a time reading anything, and as a result I realize that I’ve succumbed to what I call the slug syndrome.
