Year in Reading
December 15, 2011
A Year in Reading: Alex Shakar 2
by Alex Shakar
Yan’s style here is maximalistic, headlong, sloppy to be sure, but bursting with life; or rather, lives — human and otherwise.
December 15, 2011
A Year in Reading: Brad Listi 4
by Brad Listi
Early in the year I tried — no kidding — to read everything ever written by and about Sarah Palin. It was like the literary equivalent of Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me.
December 14, 2011
A Year in Reading: Daniel Orozco 3
by Daniel Orozco
Some of his narrators are deluded, arrogant assholes, but man, do they try (and fail) not to be.
December 14, 2011
A Year in Reading: Ward Farnsworth 1
by Ward Farnsworth
Open to any page and you are in brilliant company, with an excellent chance of being edified and amused.
December 14, 2011
A Year in Reading: Edie Meidav 1
by Edie Meidav
Stumble across any list and you know that always there lives a list beyond all lists: the list of books which you, reader, are unable to explore until you find some Kryptonlike strength over your own autobiographical impediment.
