Year in Reading

December 15, 2011

A Year in Reading: Alex Shakar 2

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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

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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 15, 2011

A Year in Reading: Hannah Nordhaus 4

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I am on a memoir kick.

December 14, 2011

A Year in Reading: Daniel Orozco 3

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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

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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

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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.