I was a late comer to the David Sedaris party. While everyone I knew was going on and on about how funny he was, I was busy reading dark and depressing, serious “literature” or, you…
Posts tagged 2008 Books
Trying to save you from the vapidness of Downtown Owl
In a Pop Matters interview Chuck Klosterman says, “It was harder to write fiction, but maybe that was only because I’d never done it before. I can’t remember if writing Fargo Rock City was hard…
Personal Days lacks the personal
If you’ve had the “pleasure” of reading Joshua Ferris’ novel Then We Came to the End you can probably skip Ed Park’s Personal Days. The two books are so similar in tone and plot (right…
Kafka was a chore
Within the last year or so, I made a rule that if I’m not engaged in a book within the first 100 or so pages I was going to stop reading it. I bent the…
Something like prayer but that wouldn’t embarrass anyone
Jean Thompson’s short stories are so beautiful that it frustrates me that she’s not more revered. At least she’s not revered in the short-story centric circles I run in. It’s a damn, damn shame. I…
Look, up in the sky!
I take a lot of shit from the comic book geeks in my life for my unflagging support of Superman. He is the best superhero of all time. It’s not a popular position to take….