Year in Reading
December 19, 2011
A Year in Reading: Nuruddin Farah 1
by Nuruddin Farah
Fridjonsson claims that in his travels he has seen the universe, which according to him, “is made of poetry.” Baldur, meanwhile, kills the fox, consumes its heart, and wears its fur.
December 19, 2011
A Year in Reading: Matthew Gallaway 0
by Matthew Gallaway
By the end it’s almost impossible not to feel deficient for being anything but a poet/lesbian, and specifically anyone but Eileen Myles.
December 19, 2011
A Year In Reading: Jane Alison 1
by Jane Alison
To read NOX is like unwinding an ancient scroll, or following a frieze around the porch of a temple, or tracing a history twisting down a column, or walking through a house in Pompeii…
December 18, 2011
A Year in Reading: Jeff Martin 0
by Jeff Martin
Emotional without even a touch of sentimentality, the piece perfectly captures the questions, assumptions, and mysteries that arise from combing through the material past of a loved one.
December 18, 2011
A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg 4
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Behold: a museum of my failures, an atlas of incompletion, a tour of the ruins of a future that never came. I call it “Reviews I Did Not Write This Year.”
December 18, 2011
A Year in Reading: Kevin Hartnett 0
by Kevin Hartnett
Following on months of transition and many sleepless newborn nights, Murakami’s rare, strange story gave me back my human shape.
