Year in Reading

December 20, 2012

A Year in Reading: Megan Mayhew Bergman 0

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Ultimately, my favorite non-fiction reads in 2012 got me thinking about the way we use nature, what we take, and how we justify it.

December 19, 2012

A Year in Reading: Reif Larsen 0

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I found myself reconsidering some of my basic assumptions about what constituted bookishness: was a book defined by its composition? By an expectation of narrative? By a currency of pages? By its singular thingness?

December 19, 2012

A Year in Reading: Nick Dybek 1

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There are also times when a book is too good, when I begin think, what’s the point? No matter how hard I work I’ll never be able to do this.

December 19, 2012

A Year in Reading: Jennifer duBois 0

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It’s the brutality of Milosz’s empathy — as well as the brutality of his clarity — that makes this collection so powerful.

December 19, 2012

A Year in Reading: Lydia Millet 2

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What it did was persuade me that I could read well without reading perfectly, that part of reading should always be failing to understand.

December 18, 2012

A Year in Reading: Patrick Somerville 0

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I have not had sex with Peter Geye, but I have read his debut novel, and it is fantastic.