Look at all these books! We have so much to discuss! The Marriage Plot was a little boring towards the middle and really pessimistic about the prospects of love among the manic depressive. The Art of Fielding wasn’t really about baseball at all and the reviewers really shouldn’t have dragged it through all those baseball metaphors. Home run! Leaving The Atocha Station is narrated by the world’s most frustratingly familiar person. Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams originally appeared in a bright-orange issue of The Paris Review in 2000 but you should buy this new hardcover edition so publishers catch on and start putting out more novellas.  Empire State is another one of those smart graphic novels that everyone loves so much but never really talks about. n+1 issue twelve isn’t really a book but it has two pretty great essays on gChat and The Gathering Of Juggalos (their Occupy Wall Street Gazette isn’t bad either). Tell Me You Love Me Julie Moon is sad and subtle and the best read in this pile. Greg Hrbek taught one of my writing seminars and sometimes we email back and forth but I would recommend you go out a get a copy of Destroy All Monsters even if I didn’t know him.  Follow along at home.  Click for high-res image

Look at all these books! We have so much to discuss!

The Marriage Plot was a little boring towards the middle and really pessimistic about the prospects of love among the manic depressive. The Art of Fielding wasn’t really about baseball at all and the reviewers really shouldn’t have dragged it through all those baseball metaphors. Home run! Leaving The Atocha Station is narrated by the world’s most frustratingly familiar person. Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams originally appeared in a bright-orange issue of The Paris Review in 2000 but you should buy this new hardcover edition so publishers catch on and start putting out more novellas.  Empire State is another one of those smart graphic novels that everyone loves so much but never really talks about. n+1 issue twelve isn’t really a book but it has two pretty great essays on gChat and The Gathering Of Juggalos (their Occupy Wall Street Gazette isn’t bad either). Tell Me You Love Me Julie Moon is sad and subtle and the best read in this pile. Greg Hrbek taught one of my writing seminars and sometimes we email back and forth but I would recommend you go out a get a copy of Destroy All Monsters even if I didn’t know him. 

Follow along at home. 

Posted on October 23, 2011 at 5:38pm with 1 note

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