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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace is clearly an accomplished and, at times, brilliant writer. If it were only a matter of judging his playfulness, innovation, and enthusiasm-sheer energy-it would be hard to imagine...
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Alien Autopsy: Stories by Pedro Ponce
Pedro Ponce offers eighteen very short stories in this slender volume (Cow Heavy Books, 55 pages). Within the brief space Ponce delegates for himself not much can happen, but these vignettes do manage...
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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
He is not a very nice person but he is fun – Nabokov describing the character of Pnin in a letter to his editor at The New Yorker Readers of my third novel, The More Things Change, who at the current...
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Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes’ Flaubert’s Parrot (Picador 2002, 190 pages) is the story of one man’s quest, his “project” to find the writer outside his writings, despite Flaubert’s insistence that the books should be...
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Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Lethem is the best fiction author writing today. Fact (usual IMhO disclaimers). Chronic City (Faber & Faber 467 pages) isn’t even one of his best, yet still knocks the socks off all his would-be...
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Russia. Russia. Russia. Ever since the Wicked Witch of the West succumbed to the Reality Circus Clown, the popular press has been serving up reconstituted Cold War propaganda, declaring that the...
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In Brother Carnival (Red Hen Press, 209 pages), a fiercely engaging literary work, Dennis Must plays with time and character, leading the reader into a special world of space and time, almost a quantum...
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New Book Announcement by Charles Holdefer, illustrations by Royce M. Becker From Genii Magazine: This wee tome is very attractive. Royce M. Becker’s design and colorful illustrations are beautiful.Mr....
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