Archive for the tag 'postmodernism'

Oct 20 2008

The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall • The Raw Shark Texts The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Year: 2007
Pages: 448
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This is not the first time I’ve read The Raw Shark Texts; in fact, it was only a conspicuously-short time ago that…

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Aug 03 2008

All the Sad Young Literary Men

Keith Gessen • All the Sad Young Literary Men All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
Publisher: Viking Adult
Year: 2008
Pages: 256
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Stuff White People Like is the latest satirical meme sweeping the internet (well, the white people, anyway). I say this in…

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Mar 13 2008

Rant

Chuck Palahniuk • Rant Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Doubleday
Year: 2007
Pages: 336
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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.…

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Nov 19 2007

id est ‘a poem about hands’

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…

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Aug 21 2007

The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall • The Raw Shark Texts The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Year: 2007
Pages: 448
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The Raw Shark Texts, when you think about it, seems right up my alley: full of word games, puns, a plot based…

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Apr 12 2007

The Vagaries of Narrative

Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
- Publilius Syrus -

Green children perch on tiptoes to reach the crayon-wax sun, cicada-giggling to the squeak of fog-swing. The crayon is Helios Red, screaming the flesh from the mist; a dawnmoses parting the decrepit…

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Apr 05 2007

The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde • The Eyre Affair The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2003
Pages: 384
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I happened upon Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair entirely by accident (though for the life of me I don’t remember how). I seem to have…

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Feb 21 2007

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl • Special Topics in Calamity Physics Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Publisher: Viking Adult
Year: 2006
Pages: 528
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a murder mystery: we find that out in the introduction. We also learn that Blue van…

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Feb 17 2007

Galatea 2.2

Richard Powers • Galatea 2.2 Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Publisher: Picador
Year: 1995/2004
Pages: 336
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I received Galatea 2.2 as a birthday gift from my brother—previously, I had never heard of Powers, which now surprises me insofar as he seems the…

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