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10/15/07 // Book:: The Cave by José Saramago Not one of Saramago’s better books, but still enjoyable. Saramago in the Salon review: "We think that this so-called reality we invent is not only the only reality that exists, but the only reality that we want. "continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar I had previously only thought of Cortazar as a poet since I had only read his amazing collection of poems, but this is a remarkable novel. I enjoyed the first half a little more, if only because it was set …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburo Oe Oe’s writing, like Nike Drake’s music, is gets more and more powerful the quieter and more subtle his voice becomes.continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond One of the most original ideas I’ve come across in recent memory, erudite and extremely well written for a "popular" science book.continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace Early work by one of the most compelling contemporary writers.continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson It has a great plot, but in general I thought this one sucked. You see a lot of them in the dollar bin at bookshops, there’s a reason for that.continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley Alice Notley’s thoughts on this book: "I love to write long poems, to be utterly involved in a particular poem as a way of living a life." Couldn’t have said it better myself. After <em>The Battlefield where the Moon Says …continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme Barthelme is one of a kind, one of those love him or hate him soft of authors.continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman Keats said beauty is truth, but then talking of beauty fell out of fashion and creating the beautiful fell out with it. Perhaps we need to learn how to dream again.continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: House of the Sleeping Beauties and Othe… by Yasunari Kawabata From another review: "true artists do not need to be told what beauty is, nor do they need to tell anybody else. They know it when they see it, and they can create it like a silkworm creates silk."continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I L… by Frank Stanford Hands down the best American book of the 20th century. A bold claim I know, but I stand by it. There’s a great little essay on Frank Standford at Alsop Review “It was Lorca who noted that poets have to …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: The Raving Fortune by Noelle Kocot Noelle Kocot is a great poet. If you live in New York keep an eye out, she sometimes reads in Brooklyn.continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems… by John Ashbery There is only one John Ashbery. I feel compelled to re-read this book every so often, generally about once a year and I never fail to find something new. He’s also one of the great readers, if you ever get …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: The System of the World by Neal Stephenson The final book in Neal Stephenson’s highly entertaining ‘Baroque Cycle’ trilogy. It always irritates me that Stephenson doesn’t get more respect as a literary writer, so his books sell, does that mean they aren’t serious literature? Snobbishness is stupid.continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago By far Saramago’s best book. “Here the sea ends and the earth begins…”continue reading »

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