Great news from the good people over at Electric Literature: Peter Nowogrodzki’s essay on Tan Lin’s The Patio and The Index, has won a Critical Hit Award. Electric Literature had this to say:
If you’re not familiar with the Latin etymology of “concrete” and the rhetorical device of antanaclasis, you may be in grave danger of not fully appreciating Tan Lin’s memoiristic text about language, family, and geology. Peter Nowogrodzki is here to help. His review is like a set of footnotes—the history of field guides to birds!—that make Lin’s work sound brilliant.
The awards go to just three reviews each month. The other winners were Meghan O’Rourke (Full Stop interview here) in New York for her review of Girl Land and Choire Sicha in Slate for his review of The Tender Hour of Twilight.
So there you have it — New York, Slate, and Full Stop. Seems about right. Congrats to all the winners and thank you Electric Lit!
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