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…
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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…
The final stop in the September whirlwind lit tour
This is my friend Steve reading at Magers & Quinn last week. His reading was the last stop on my whirlwind September literary tour. Of course, three readings in ten days might not seem like…
Reporting from the literary hub of the universe
Last night I went to see Gary Shteyngart read at Magers & Quinn. It was surprisingly delightful. Surprising, because in the past I have not been so kind to Shteyngart’s writing (see here or here)…
‘Fiction is payback for those who wronged you’
Thankfully, my friend Steve thinks more photographically than I do. If it weren’t for him making an incredulous you have to take a picture of this face accompanied by subtle hand gestures, I’d have missed…