Year in Reading

December 14, 2010

A Year in Reading: Sigrid Nunez 1

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One of the few contemporary writers whose work can be called “necessary” without fear of overstatement.

December 14, 2010

A Year in Reading: Paul Harding 0

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Both books are small masterpieces of great aesthetic and cosmological elegance, told in deceptively anecdotal styles.

December 14, 2010

A Year in Reading: Rosecrans Baldwin 0

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It was an exhilarating discovery: a short, upsetting, foxy novel published way back in 2001.

December 13, 2010

A Year in Reading: Keith Gessen 1

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I tend to read books in spurts.

December 13, 2010

A Year in Reading: Tom McCarthy 2

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It’s hard to describe: nothing really happens in it. Maybe a woman dies, maybe not.

December 13, 2010

A Year in Reading: Lorin Stein 1

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She can make you believe, for pages at a time, that the two languages–two ways of thinking and feeling–are a hair’s breadth apart. It really is magic.