I seem to be throwing myself around the literary world of late. I swing wildly from science fiction to detective stuff to post-modern nonsense to literary fiction and...
Is he a showrunner or an author? Or an author/novelist who's a showrunner? The man behind such excellently twisted shows as Fargo and Legion breaks out of his o...
If you're a true nerd like me, you download the Slate book club podcast. If you're even a bigger nerd, you download the podcast without reading the book first j...
I've heard this type of fiction called "fantastic realism" in recent years. Although I'm not sure that really fits in this case. Maybe, as in the case of anothe...
I took the wimpy way out. I could have tried to read Gravity's Rainbow again. It would be my third time. The furthest I ever got in that abomination was page 15...
It's clear that this is the same man who wrote The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. The pervasive themes of isolation, loneliness and disenfranchisement in a weird world...
This was one of those books that sounded endlessly entertaining in its description, but started to pale when reading user comments. Despite some less than enthu...
Autism is always an interesting thing to write about. It's honestly kind of a gimmick, and can sometimes drown in its own one-track perspective, but as with any...
I've read a few books by Auster, and honestly can't say whether or not I liked them. His stories tend to leave you cold. His themes tend to be filled with lonel...
Trying to describe this book in words is like attempting to explain my pure hatred for George Bush in plain English--it's twisting, complicated and ever-growing...
Infinitely readable and completely entertaining, Carter Beats the Devil is Kavalier & Clay with a good editor. This is actually the third book in a row I've...
