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Posts Categorized: Books
My Infatuation with The Infatuations
Marías’ latest is a delight and a revelation, concurrently tugging at your heartstrings and engaging your grey matter. Read more »
Tropic of Skorpeo – Michael Morrissey
If you can get into it, Tropic of Skorpeo is fun. There’s some fighting, some kidnapping, two thwarted weddings, a love plot, and at one point Rhameo does go to sleep inside a giant vagina on a planet called Pornotopia. Read more »
The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami
With a charming surrealism and a whimsical, slightly troubled logic, the stories in The Elephant Vanishes are condensed bursts of Murakami—but not at all diminished for this. Read more »
The Disappearance: A Primer on Loss – Genevieve Jurgensen
Our collective attention span is short, but as Genevieve Jurgensen demonstrates in her 1994 memoir, the aftermath of disaster, though unfolding laboriously, is often more compelling than disaster itself. Read more »
Train Dreams – Denis Johnson
The novella contains a thick sense of atmosphere, resonating beautifully through Johnson’s sparse writing. Read more »
Books – Poetry
Teaching Placement The first day in many I had not got this eyelash out of ...Read more »
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
I don’t read enough thrillers. I get caught up in that whole “literary fiction versus ...Read more »
The Black Album – Hanif Kureishi
Set in 1989 against a backdrop of fear, aggression and anxiety, Hanif Kureishi’s 1995 the ...Read more »
In My Home There Is No More Sorrow – Rick Bass
“Every word I spend here without getting to the bones feels like I am shirking ...Read more »