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REVIEW: ‘How Did You Get This Number’ by Sloane Crosley
Some say the life of a New Yorker is never boring. Sloane Crosley would say that’s just about right. However, this is also true for any other place she happens to be around the
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Why Translation Matters’ by Edith Grossman
Previously, in my review of Garcia Marquez’s novel 'Love in the Time of Cholera', I neglected to mention that my review was based on my reading of Edith Grossman’s translation of the text. My
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
William Faulkner in his Nobel Speech condemns the tendency in contemporary writing to reject the abiding trials of the spirit and exalt the momentary violence of the day: “[T]he young man or woman writing
Read More »REVIEW: ‘The Imperfectionists’ by Tom Rachman
Journalist-turned-fiction-writer Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists is, essentially, what the sitcom The Office would be like if it were set in a newsroom. It has the same sense of pervading apathy, the same complicated map
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Shoplifting from American Apparel’ by Tao Lin
What is the core idea of the hipster culture
Read More »Review: ‘Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man’ by Bill Clegg
This story is one you’ve heard before. There’s a fairly successful guy (he never lets you forget how successful he is) with a good job, a functioning romantic relationship and lots of friends in
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ by Jonathan Safran Foer
If you are searching for an atypical summer read, then you might find what you are looking for in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. This creative novel employs a visual
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself’ by David Lipsky (on David Foster Wallace)
David Foster Wallace was a writer. He had his first novel published at 27, and a few years later wrote a book called Infinite Jest, which Time Magazine saw fit to include on its
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Blink’ by Malcom Gladwell
Usually when someone hears “awesome” and “nonfiction” in a sentence, they think of reading Nikki Sixx’s The Heroin Diaries or watching Man on Wire. However, I think of Blink by Malcom Gladwell. It's a
Read More »Review: The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
You can’t be mad at Dave Eggers. The generation-defining author was asked by Maurice Sendak himself to novelize Sendak’s beloved Where the Wild Things Are. He didn’t go and do it for the paycheck, or
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