Category:  Reviews

Anarchy is obviously not a good thing.
I find it strange that people like Glenn Beck are so in fear of this book; it seems pretty clear that it was written by a bunch of dreamers, the sort of people who are more waiting for an insurrection to happen than to be t… Read the rest

A Book of Reasons is a memoir about a recluse. It is a narrative attempting to make sense of a distant brother’s nature, who upon dying, leaves the author his house.
John Vernon breaks his book up into sections which are each titled with one word, “Heat”, “… Read the rest

The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel by Thomas Pynchon. It is relatively short as compared to his other works, many of which I have tried reading, but found myself largely unable to.
The Crying of Lot 49 took me some time, and it is unique to me in that this is my seco… Read the rest

John Gardner is a legend. He is touted as perhaps the best writer who has ever written about fiction, and the three main books in which he does this are The Art of Fiction, On Becoming a Novelist and On Moral Fiction.
On the back cover of On Moral Fiction, in t… Read the rest

I bought Userlands (New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground) off a used rack to see what the literary blogging scene was like in 2007. I wanted to see how writing that was blogged would fare in a published collection, and how writing from the in… Read the rest

On the sly, I’ve been reading E. M. Forster’s, Aspects of the Novel (1927). I’m not quite sure what I think about this book.
E. M. Forster takes the title of his book very seriously. He goes as far as to say each “section” s… Read the rest

White Noise is a novel by Don Delillo. I am currently reading it and the book is giving me some impressions.
First off, Greg Farrell recently informed me that Don Delillo personally discredits any of his own work prior to White Noise (1985). Farrell stat… Read the rest