A couple of the more exciting book stumbles I’ve enjoyed recently are Geologist Dougal Dixon’s “zoology of the future,” After Man (1981), and its “anthropology of the future” sequel, Man…
I feel like now is an inappropriate time to admit that the last book I loved is a book called After the Quake by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, a book…
I spent most of today re-reading Andre Dubus’s “Voices From the Moon”.[1] It is one of those stories. When you finish it you concentrate a little harder on your own…
The Rumpus Book club reveals how Jim Shepard might just be your favorite catastrophist. Lidia Yuknavitch‘s sentences can be rambling and unorthodox, says Books and Brews blogger of her new…
Although it’s Spring 2011 and the snow in the Quadrangle is melting, why not treat your manly neck like it’s 1989? Life is just a collection of scarves, and scarves were meant…
There’s literature and then there are books. You pick up a Rushdie or a Marquez or Bolaño–these are the kind of heavy works which aren’t works at all, but are…