More happens in the first fifty pages of Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky than in entire novels I’ve read this year. It’s the lightning speed of the story that makes this book so damn hard…
Posts tagged 2010 Books
Literary husbandry
In my head if Mary Gaitskill’s writing and Philip Roth’s writing were to meet, have sex, and create a baby, that baby would be Gina Frangello’s writing. I choose Gaitskill because, like Frangello, she writes…
Hold me closer, Tiny Cooper
This is the tale of two Will Graysons. Capitalized Will Grayson who is BFFs with Tiny Cooper, a huge gay football star at their high school. And lower case will grayson who is a depressed…
The Great Literary Penis Embargo of 2010
That whole Franzen/Picoult/Wiener ?boys get all the attention? kerfuffle, made me acutely aware that my To Read pile was leaning disturbingly masculine. While I haven?t quite sorted out my feelings about the dust up, I…
Tiger Beat: The Dead Author Special Issue
There is no way for me to adequately review David Lipsky’s erm, book-length interview? biography? of David Foster Wallace, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. Why? Because I approached the book like it…