Recent Articles
December 20, 2009
A Year in Reading: Traver Kauffman (Rake’s Progress) 0
by Traver Kauffman
My ambitious plan to read all of Elkin devolved into a desperate plan to keep from defaulting on my mortgage.
December 20, 2009
A Year in Reading: Tim W. Brown 0
by Tim W. Brown
The Worst Book I Ever Read says things about authors and books that few readers would dare say out loud, let alone publish, defiantly and hilariously raising a middle finger at literary lameness and publishing torpor.
December 19, 2009
A Year in Reading: Anne K. Yoder 0
by Anne K. Yoder
Dubravka Ugresic uses a visit to a New York nail salon to depict the mish-mash of contemporary cultures, calls out celebrities as the new secular saints, and debunks the romanticism of exile while deeming the suitcase its god.
December 19, 2009
A Year in Reading: Carolyn Kellogg 4
by Carolyn Kellogg
The Pynchonmanes like the intellectual challenge of his massive books, and they tend to balk against the straightforward elements of Inherent Vice
December 19, 2009
A Year in Reading from The New Yorker 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
New Yorker contributors – including a couple of participants in our “Year in Reading” series – offer a predictably thoughtful and heterodox guide to the best books they read this year.
December 19, 2009
A Year in Reading: John Williams (The Second Pass) 1
by John Williams
Starring semi-rural characters down on their luck in places from Illinois to the outskirts of Nashville, these eight stories contain both humor and compassion about people and an appreciation for nature that is never heavy-handed.
