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08/12/08 // Book:
The Silent Cry: A Novel by Kenzaburo Oë I have a feeling that this translation is not the best in the world (though as far as I know it’s the only). Oe gets quite a bit of praise for the poetics of his language, but I didn’t really …continue reading »
07/31/08 // Book:
The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy Cormac Mccarthy’s first book may well be his best. Some the finest writing you’re likely to encounter in a contemporary novel — particularly the bits about landscape and the mountains of Tennessee. The Orchard Keeper isn’t as dark as some …continue reading »
05/24/08 // Book:
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges My first hands on with Borges… Absolutely amazing. So far beyond what I’ve been reading lately (mainly non-fiction and some late 20th century authors). As with Faulkner, I find it shocking that I was given an undergraduate degree in English …continue reading »
01/31/08 // Book:
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami I haven’t had a chance to read much lately, I’ve been busy writing, which is good I guess, but if you don’t read you’ll never be a very good writer. I knew a good Murakami novel would make me drop …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You 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:
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald “All forms of colour were dissolved in a pearl-grey haze; there were no contrasts, no shading any more, only flowing transitions with the light throbbing through them, a single blur from which only the most fleeting of visions emerged.” This …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner “I decline to accept the end of man.” — William Faulker in a speech to accept the Nobel Prize of Literature.continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:
Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami I happen to love Murakami and Dance Dance Dance is a nice intro if you haven’t read him before. It’s fairly straightforward (for Murakami anyway), but still has those quintessential Murakami elements — a disaffected middle-aged man with enough quirks …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Probably my favorite Murakami book (though I haven’t read them all)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 »
09/09/07 // Book:
Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald Sebald at his best: Death, destruction and memory obsessed over and exhumed in the light art, literature and nature, and, among other things, absurdity, paranoia and love.continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald From the Independent’s obituary for W. G. Sebald: "All of Max Sebald’s books were, in their own fastidious way, ghost stories. History, along with its makers and victims, signals its terrors and consolations to the living across an unbridgeable gulf …continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata Beautiful novel. Its easy to see why he was the first Japanese novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1968). His prose is of the quality that you feel lost in some gorgeous poetic wonderland. Regrettably, while this is …continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:
Vertigo by W. G. Sebald "There is something marvelous and bracing about wandering through a maze of unanswerable questions with an eccentrically brilliant guide" - Salon Reviewcontinue 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 »