Write That Damn Novel
I don’t know about you but this is the year I finish that @#$#@%! novel. I got two hundred pages of rough stuff. Real rough stuff. The first novel. The…
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A Funny Book About Genocide
“I’d been thinking about writing a book on genocide for some time, but the project really kicked off about a year-and-a-half ago, around the time my wife told me she…
Peter Orner Gets Murky
“It’s said Grandpa Leo got deranged a few years after FDR died. They had to put him in the Home for the Jewish Aged on Petoskey Avenue. He despised the…
Things To Look Forward To In 2010
“The Notebook is the collected entries from 87-year-old Saramago’s blog, O Caderno de Saramago. The book, ‘which has already appeared in Portuguese and Spanish, lashes out against George W. Bush,…
Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Amy Bloom’s characters are glorious, endearing wrecks—vain, horny, bullheaded, and brave. They resemble everyone we’ve ever known intimately.
In Praise of the Indie Bookseller
Poets & Writers has a new series, Inside Indie Bookstores, by Jeremiah Chamberlin, associate editor of Fiction Writers Review. Each month, according to Chamberlin, the series will feature an interview…
Your DFW Fix
It seems that people will only grow to love David Foster Wallace more as the years go on. It’s what usually happens when you can’t get someone anymore. Here’s a…
Eraserhead vs. Protractorhead
This 1971 book by Kiyoshi Awazu was going to be part of a larger post of Japanese graphic design… until I admitted to myself that it is the best thing…
Andrew Porter: The Last Book I Loved, The Dead Fish Museum
The last book I really truly loved was Charles D’Ambrosio’s second short story collection, The Dead Fish Museum. I had been looking forward to the release of this book ever…
Katie Roiphe’s Big Cock Block
I’m not sure what feminist nomenclature Katie Roiphe would assign herself, but I can’t fathom why she would choose to “assign primacy” to The Man.
The Story of George
In “By George,” Maira Kalman’s final installment of her year-long New York Times series, “And the Pursuit of Happiness,” Kalman ushers in the new decade with a tribute to the…