Reading Log: Thom Jones’s Cold Snap
Cold Snap is Jones’s second collection of stories, a follow-up to his acclaimed debut The Pugilist at Rest. Cold Snap borrows some of the characters from his earlier collection, and…
2014 Revisited, with Metadata!
I decided to go through the list of books I read last year, compiling data. I used the incredibly scientific method of thinking up some interesting categories on the drive…
Reading Log: John Gardner’s Grendel
Grendel is the first full-length John Gardner novel I’ve read. I’m blown away. Go buy this book and read it now. Gardner gives voice to the Other (here the oldest…
Reading Log: Kim Cooper’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (a 33⅓ book)
Kim Cooper’s 33⅓ entry on Neutral Milk Hotel’s magnum opus In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a good read for fans of the album, the band, or the alternative…
Reading Log: Denis Johnson’s Nobody Move
This was a fun one. One of the most frequent complaints about literary fiction is that “nothing happens”. Fair enough. It’s a trope that the best writers either transcend or…
Call For Nonfiction 2015
Thrownby Kerry Howley I want to read a bit more nonfiction this year. My 2014 reading list was varied in the sense that it represented different time periods,…
Reading Log: The Paris Review Winter 2004
I’ve never purchased as subscription to The Paris Review, for the following reasons: -I’m broke as hell -They have most of their back interviews and lots of other good…
2014 Book List and Best of 2014’s Reading
These are the books I’ve read this year. I’m afraid this list pulls the curtain aside; there are a few books you can see I’ve read but haven’t…
Happy Holidays!
I was waiting in line at the bookstore picking up a last minute gift when an older man behind me gave me this. No "L". Happy Holidays, everyone. Regular…
Powell’s Partner
(Click here to buy books!) Powell’s is a great store. As much as I love browsing brick-and-mortar used book stores, sometimes I need (or want) a particular book. Powell’s is…