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"Anyway: Angie" by Daniel José Older
Daniel José Older writes about ghosts, even when that's not literally true. In "Anyway: Angie," Reza's lost lover haunts her every step, pushing her to be reckless, to grieve instead of act, to risk her life for those who are too far gone to thank her. But Reza's ghosts also drive her to do better this time. If she wasn't good enough to do what was ( Read more... ) -
The Line of Beauty
Nick Guest, The Line of Beauty’s protagonist, is a true aesthete, a student of style and interpreter of taste who considers himself the ideal candidate to replace Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty. The novel’s prose is designed to reflect his perspective; Hollinghurst’s shrot phrases are crisp, his long sentences wonderfully sinuous, and he ( Read more... ) -
The Spoiler Series, Issue 1: Of course characters develop.
I told you I was going to write about spoilers, and now I'm finally going to do so. Instead of trying to unleash everything I've ever thought about the subject in one unspeakably long post, though, I'm going to break up my thoughts into several shorter posts, spaced out over time. In this way I strive to ensure that my loyal audience can never be ( Read more... ) -
House of Chains - The Malazan Book of the Fallen
Two days ago I finished Steven Erikson's House of Chains, a novel I started reading in mid-September. That's a rather long time for me to spend reading a novel. I attribute this delay largely to the fact that during the school year I have to read somewhere between one and three novels every single week, but that hasn't always stopped me from ( Read more... ) -
The People of Paper
The People of Paper is a novel with a sufficiently strange format that Salvador Plascencia actually had a lot of trouble getting it published. It turns out that when you absolutely need to have part of your text be scribbled out, part of your text covered in black ink of various shapes and sizes, and part of your text vertically-oriented, some ( Read more... ) -
This may not be the journal you were expecting.
For anyone formerly subscribed to this journal when it was "Supergeniusvote," I'm sorry to inform you that we're under new management. The former owner of this account has given it to me so that I may use it for other purposes ( Read more... )