Year in Reading

December 21, 2011

A Year in Reading: Ellis Avery 1

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.