Year in Reading
December 9, 2010
A Year in Reading: Phillip Lopate 1
by Phillip Lopate
What makes these books delightful, for me, is their worldly, tolerant understanding of human frailty: the author’s refusal to condemn, preach morality or be shocked by his characters’ infidelities and errors.
December 8, 2010
A Year in Reading: Aimee Bender 4
by Aimee Bender
The reward for this pace is a calmness lifting up off the pages, and a careful generous dipping into a deep and beautiful well.
December 8, 2010
A Year in Reading: Tom Rachman 1
by Tom Rachman
Looking back now, I find scribbles of exhilaration and of disappointment.
December 8, 2010
A Year in Reading: Paul Murray 0
by Paul Murray
With a linguistic elan that as a former student I can confirm is exceedingly rare in philosophy books, he attacks every form of received opinion of his day.
December 7, 2010
A Year in Reading: Anthony Doerr 2
by Anthony Doerr
A quest for the loneliest places in the world.
December 7, 2010
A Year in Reading: Padgett Powell 1
by Padgett Powell
These cumbersome icebergs, troubling in the sea of smooth and coherent fiction, are pure delights in this book.
