Year in Reading
December 18, 2012
A Year in Reading: Christine Schutt 0
by Christine Schutt
This past summer I fell into the dream of reading as on a train; I was disembodied and purely receptive…
December 18, 2012
A Year in Reading: Susan Straight 1
by Susan Straight
The words which affected me most, the stories I discovered accidentally and thought about all year, were from Tennessee. Short stories. The form everyone sighs about as if it will expire. No. Uh-uh. Not at my house.
December 18, 2012
A Year in Reading: Malcolm Jones 1
by Malcolm Jones
Featuring the madcap octogenarian party boy and all-around cutup. I pray that I live long enough to follow his errant but shining example.
December 17, 2012
A Year in Reading: Robin Sloan 2
by Robin Sloan
A 15-year-old memoir is still the best rendering of our new relationship with code that anyone has produced.
December 17, 2012
A Year in Reading: Lars Iyer 0
by Lars Iyer
It is a work of contemporary wisdom literature, a genre to which no “poor idiot professor” can contribute.
December 17, 2012
A Year in Reading: Alix Ohlin 1
by Alix Ohlin
I don’t think I’ve ever read books so utterly lacking in sentiment, and yet so completely heartbreaking.