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Biblioklept: Big Blog Birthday, Unabashed Book Buying, and Nabokov at a Bargain
So today Biblioklept turns a healthy one year old. When I wrote that very first post about A Raisin in the Sun, I had no inkling of the vast riches on my horizon. Ahhh…simple youth. Them were the days,...
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The Yiddish Policemen’s Union–Michael Chabon
Yesterday afternoon, I finished listening to the audiobook version of Michael Chabon’s much heralded 2007 novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, read quite competently by Peter Riegert. I like...
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The Anxiety of Influence
In her essay “The Naked and the Conflicted,” published in today’s New York Times, Katie Roiphe suggests that “we are awfully cavalier about the Great Male Novelists of the last century. It has become...
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Vice Interviews Bret Easton Ellis
Vice interviews Bret Easton Ellis at length. Topics include troublesome editors, that “Cranky old bastard” J.D. Salinger (“who hated us all, by the way”), the weirdness of L.A., and his forthcoming...
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Why I Abandoned Chad Harbach’s Over-Hyped Novel The Art of Fielding After...
Genre fiction gets a bad rap from some readers and critics because it often rigidly follows a set of formal conventions, from plot to character to prose, to satisfy reader expectations. One mark of...
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A Riff on What I Read (And Didn’t Read) in 2012
I didn’t really read that many new books—by which I mean books published in 2012—this year. The highlight of the new books I did read was Chris Ware’s Building Stories, the moving story of the lives...
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