Loads of Learned Lumber

IMAGINE MY CHAGRIN when, after reading The Viral Lease , I went to shelve it and discovered that my copies of Creation Myths and Why I Am W...

I WAS IN the middle of the McSweeney's Books edition of The Middle Stories -- and in fact the copy I acquired was from the somewhat col...

A FAVORITE OF my sister, who gave me this for Christmas in 2006. As it is a novel of somewhat daunting length, over 600 pages, I was slow t...

I'M DRAWN TO the sheer bookness of this book -- that it wholly eludes being any kind of book (fiction, memoir, poetry, history) yet rem...

LIKE R EVOLUTIONARY ROAD , another masterpiece of mid-century American realism that I had not gotten around to until this year -- in this ca...

THE SAME PERSON who recommended to me Joshua Clover's Madonna Anno Domini as one of the best volumes of new poetry of the 1990s also re...

SOMEONE WHOSE OPINIONS I heed recommended this as one of the best volumes of poetry to appear in the 1990s, so off to amazon.com I went. Th...