Year in Reading
December 7, 2009
A Year in Reading: Michelle Huneven 0
by Michelle Huneven
This was my year of reading alcoholically. I didn’t plan it that way. But in book after book, the disease flourished and triumphed, not a recovery in sight.
December 6, 2009
A Year in Reading: Edan Lepucki 10
by Edan Lepucki
I loved how Antonya Nelson compressed time, and how, with a single phrase, I understood a moment for all of its awkwardness, anxiety, hope, and honesty.
December 4, 2009
A Year in Reading: Deb Olin Unferth 2
by Deb Olin Unferth
It’s easy to read this book and be entranced by the protagonist, that lone man on a quest to find the wife who has been stolen from him and replaced by an impostor. But it’s the wife who finally broke my heart.
December 4, 2009
A Year in Reading: Jesse Ball 3
by Jesse Ball
There’s a lot of posturing about contemporary writing, but the truth is — most of it isn’t any good. That’s where Robert Walser comes in, from the first quarter of the last century, riding the wagon from his Swiss sanatorium.
December 3, 2009
A Year in Reading: David Gutowski (Largehearted Boy) 0
by David Gutowski
Victor LaValle’s skills for drawing believable characters and capturing the essence of their conversations on the page drew me into one of the finest works of speculative fiction I have ever read.
December 3, 2009
A Year in Reading: Jonathan Lethem 2
by Jonathan Lethem
Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood is a supreme literary stunt.
