Previously, I’ve reviewed Powers’ novels Galatea 2.2 and Three Farmers On Their Way to a Day. In those reviews, I made some observations general to Powers himself as a writer, and not simply to the individual books themselves. Notably, Powers tends to write rather two-dimensional characters doing two-dimensional things—mere cogs in his much larger and [...]
This is not the first time I’ve read The Raw Shark Texts; in fact, it was only a conspicuously-short time ago that I read it for the first time. Having recommended it to a number of people, I revisited my review of it and was perturbed to find it less than stellar—more confused than anything. [...]
Stuff White People Like is the latest satirical meme sweeping the internet (well, the white people, anyway). I say this in part because I hope to make the new book part of my 52-in-52 meme, but also because it ties ever-so-neatly into my review of Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men. Because if [...]
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I’m no stranger no Chuck Palahniuk, and perhaps that’s why in recent years my interest in his books has waned. It takes a special sort of talent to create books that are simultaneously far out in left field and maddeningly derivative. I received Rant as a gift (signed, even!); to be honest, I’d been wanting [...]
a five-legged creature, violently still upon a binding chord of minor keys, befitting major locks, has with its muted exhortations cloven wax from wick and rue from blight and sea from salt. a leaf of flesh, its tangled skein scrying spring while lined with rime, a piquant son of deciduity —sunward turned and hot of [...]
The Raw Shark Texts, when you think about it, seems right up my alley: full of word games, puns, a plot based to great degree on the mechanics of thought and language. In all honesty, I didn’t know any of that when I picked it up. My impression from reading the cover flap was that [...]
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