I still love David Foster Wallace

I thought Mark Sarvas's book Harry, Revised was pretty good.

didn't love Captive Audience. At least you know I don't like everything

I interview crime novelist Dennis Tafoya

also... Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Glen David Gould and more!

This is irony, right? my 6-word story for smith's travel nightmares theme won.
That's not the irony.

The irony is that the judge is an author whose work I'm not particularly fond of, and the prize is a collection of her books.

Also, hipsterbookclub.com is up.

did some fake book covers!

I wrote about fan fic!

I liked The Invention of Air!

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Hipster book club is up, and i am illin'.

If you like metafiction or tricky love stories, you might want to ready You, or the Invention of Memory. It's really well done.

I interview Kyria Abrahams, author of the hilarious memoir I'm Perfect, Your Doomed

I like snark, and so I don't like the David Denby anti-snark book I cut this one down a lot ( Read more... )

I wrote a long NYRB-style piece on The Gift, Comeuppance, and Beat The Reaper

Sometimes experimental fiction works! I liked driven or forced onward by or as if by wind or water.

I hate publishing companies!

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

my last love letter to david foster wallace

Roberto Bolaño's 2666: love it

Interview with Mark Everett from EELS
and a review of his book Things the Grandchildren Should Know: liked it alot

Phony!: liked it

Night of the Gun: hated it

Vegan A Go Go: super cute cook book

enter the contest, win signed books!

at hipsterbookclub.com

my interview with publisher + writer Jon Konrath

I love short stories

Review of Greasy Rider: I didn't love it

Review of Sub-Hollywood: I liked it.

Review of Eat Me: The food and philosophy of Kenny Shopsin: BEST COOKBOOK EVER.

The DFW stuff: My little tribute

my review of oblivion

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... )