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December 14, 2009
Some Choice DFW Links 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
GQ offers an insightful interview with The New Yorker‘s Deborah Treisman on the subject of editing David Foster Wallace…while elsewhere, the German translation of Infinite Jest – Un Endlicher Spass – becomes an unlikely hit. (via)
December 14, 2009
A Year in Reading: Elizabeth Kostova 0
by Elizabeth Kostova
A Tale of Two Cities contains all the hallmarks of the Victorian tearjerker. I was riveted from the first–or, perhaps, the second–sentence–and I wept over the last.
December 14, 2009
Jonathan Franzen, Honesty and the Lines of Literature 7
by Daniel Silliman
In Tübingen, Jonathan Franzen talked candidly and casually about his struggles as a writer. En route, though, he made a stealthy attempt to re-frame literature so that he and his project occupied its absolute center.
December 14, 2009
A Year in Reading: Joe Meno 0
by Joe Meno
Reading this book is like realizing there is an entire room somewhere in your house that you never had the chance to visit before, a world of talking tigers, junk heaps, and underwater coffins.
December 14, 2009
A Year in Reading: Ben Fountain 4
by Ben Fountain
Susan Faludi’s dissection of the national id is even almost funny in a twisted, cringe-and-shiver way, until you remember just how much death and ruination have come of America’s years-long wallow in “Hollywood heroism.”
December 13, 2009
A Year in Reading: Scott Esposito 6
by Scott Esposito
Plotwise, The Darkroom of Damocles is as riveting a detective story as I read all year, but its purpose is far beyond that of your average noir.
