Friday, January 13, 2012

Amy Gerstler and David Lehman, eds., _The Best American Poetry 2010_

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HERE I AM a year behind again, but this one was well worth reading once I got around to it -- the best since Heather McHugh's, I think. ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

David Mitchell, _Black Swan Green_

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A CURVEBALL (or googly?) from Mitchell, heretofore given to razzle-dazzle in his fiction, as Black Swan Green is a relatively straightforwa...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Steve Stern, _The Frozen Rabbi_

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A nerdish teenaged Jewish boy living in Memphis, searching his family's deep freeze for a piece of liver in which to masturbate รก la Ale...
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Ben Lerner, _Leaving the Atocha Station_

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A BRILLIANT SHORT novel, perhaps of autobiographical inspiration, since Lerner himself grew up in Kansas, went to an Ivy League school, and ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Timothy Donnelly, _The Cloud Corporation_

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A LONGISH WAIT -- seven years -- who does he think he is, Elizabeth Bishop? -- but worth it. Donnelly still has the capacity, demonstrated r...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Jonathan Safran Foer, _Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_

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TO BE HONEST, I did not care for Everything Is Illuminated and had no plans to read Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close , but then it ended...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Jonathan Franzen, _Freedom_

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FINISHED THIS A few months ago, but you know how it gets once the semester starts... in any case, I emerged thinking Freedom certainly a go...