Loads of Learned Lumber
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Emily Perkins, _Novel About My WIfe_
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About a year ago (July 21, I find upon checking), I was reading Tom McCarthy's Remainder , on the strength of its being Believer magazi...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Jennifer Moxley, _Imagination Verses_
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HER FIRST BOOK, from 1996, written over the period 1990-95, as she notes in a preface. Already quite assured, though, I would say -- not muc...
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Charles Wright & David Lehman, eds, _The Best American Poetry 2008_
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OBVIOUSLY ABSURD PRETENSIONS of the title aside, I enjoy this series -- this volume not so much as some others, but it was nonetheless worth...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Mischa Berlinski, _Fieldwork_
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THE BOOK CLUB selection for June -- about which I knew nothing, and I don't think I even voted for it, but it turned out to be excellent...
Monday, June 22, 2009
Jennifer Moxley, _Clampdown_
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ANOTHER EXCELLENT VOLUME from Jennifer Moxley, although not a happy one. Does the title derive, I wonder, from "Workin' for the Cl...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Roberto Bolaño, _The Savage Detectives_
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MY FAVORITE REMAINS By Night in Chile , but this one was worthwhile and memorable as well. The novel is, in some respects, easily described....
Monday, June 15, 2009
Richard Yates, _Revolutionary Road_
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I READ THIS as our book club selection for May -- the release of the film based on the novel no doubt had something to do with our club'...
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