I really, really enjoyed my last trip to Manhattan; I enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I’m doing it again! This weekend, I’ll be covering Silence Unbound, an exhibition and talk on silence, writing, and book art at The … Continue reading →
Books
Review: John Williams’s “Stoner”
Apparently, every few years one critic or another will break out a well-worn soap box in order to to tritely proclaim John Williams’s Stoner as a “forgotten” American classic, an “overlooked” literary gem, etch. I will try and refrain rom using that selfsame platform, though it might be difficult not to use a corner or […]
Books Do Exist
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving yesterday! In the shopping frenzy on this Black Friday I would like to remind everyone that books make fantastic gifts. Yes, paper books. There are so many to choose from that you will surely find a perfect match for the little one in your life if you take …
#NowReading
“Cabot Wright Begins” by the wonderfully salacious James Purdy; “Bough Down” by Karen Green (wife of the late great David Foster Wallace).
#FiftyLeft
Long Division – Kiese Laymon (2012) There’s a lot in this book – inventive / wacky structure, dark humor, a keen eye for the ironies of changing race relations in America over the past fifty years – but for all of the main character’s (City Coldson’s) talk of “good sentences”, with fifty pages left in the […]
