An American Dream by Norman Mailer
fun frothy men’s fiction
Tag: New York
Open City by Teju Cole
transcript of a presentation from happier days
Trump & Me by Mark Singer
Trump cannot and will not be ignored.
Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition by Malcolm Lowry
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
This is the 300th book review I have posted on this blog*, and it seems appropriate that its focus is aContinue Reading
Midland: A Novel Out of Time by Honor Gavin
It’s not often that you find novels about provincial British cities. In America they’re all the rage. Jonathan Franzen writesContinue Reading
The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
Malcolm Lowry, secret hero of these blog posts, fell into a deep depression after the publication of Charles Jackson’s TheContinue Reading
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Sometimes I read novels where I can’t really see why they were written. Novels that say very little to meContinue Reading
Every Day Is For The Thief by Teju Cole
About a year ago I read and quite enjoyed Teju Cole’s Open City. It was a set text for myContinue Reading
Chess by Stefan Zweig
Chess is an excellent little novella written by Stefan Zweig in the early 1940s. An Austrian who’d run from theContinue Reading
