I LOVED The Book From The Sky. I really really loved it.

I thought Rancho Weirdo was pretty good too.

Did I never read The Stone Diaries before because it was written by a woman? Probably.

There was things I liked about Rock Bottom, but mostly I thought it was good for its subject matter (failing rock band) and I liked its adherence to the ( Read more... )

new hipster bookclub is up

I have a review of Laura Miller's The Magician's Book, her lit crit of the Narnia books. It's good. Goes down easy. I also have a review of The Daily Coyote, and my col about blurbs.

This issue also has the holiday book gift-giving guide! 8 pages of books! It's pretty awesome.

Hey everyone! I'll be doing a short segment on 2666 and Thing the Grandchildren Should Know on New Hampshire public radio around 12:30-ish, depending on when Obama's press conference ends.

http://www.nhpr.org/wordofmouth

is here

I review abortion and life, How Fiction Works (that really is me and not Brian Hurley), and I have a column about political memoirs. I hate them ( Read more... )

Rivka Galchen is my new best friend. Or my new bicycle.

You've had this experience, right? Where you read something someone has written and it really excites you, and in a way you think, "this author understands me. She knows what I like." That's how Atmospheric Disturbances made me feel. Like David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, there was ( Read more... )

Until the end of the day today, you can download a PDF of Charles Bock's Beautiful Children (aka the other Las Vegas novel) for free http://www.beautifulchildren.net/read/Read more... )

My boyfriend mdhornbuckle's first novella, The Salvation of BIlly Wayne Carter, is available in internets form. You can read an excerpt and buy the book (for only $4.95!!) here at cantara books. Excerpt is apparently not work safe! The download is PDF, so you can read it on your iphone ( Read more... )

I just read in galleycat that this blog http://www.theoldhag.com/index.php was named by Forbes as one of the best book blogs. It's almost unreadable, and, like in most book blogs, she doesn't really review the books, she writes jokes about the books. In fact, you can see in the ( Read more... )

Thank god I know some Canadians. I don't know if you all know this, but they have a whole culture up there that doesn't include us. We've been fortunate enough to get a few quality imports like Second City TV, Kids in the Hall, Margaret Atwood... Occasionally the stick us with a clinker like Bryan Adams. But they keep some things to themselves, the ( Read more... )

uberdionysus

He's currently doing comic book reviews. as in he draws comics that are book reviews.

http://uberdionysus.livejournal.com/tag/books

i wish i could do this, but my comics would be full of cats sitting on books.