Review

Revelator – Ron Silliman

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It is as if the atomistic building-blocks of his sentence-based universe had melted and run into one another.

Whispering Bodies – Jesse Michaels

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His undoing is also that of punk rock

Bleeding Edge – Thomas Pynchon

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Ultimately Bleeding Edge is not so much “minor” Pynchon as it is a kind of synthetic replica of a Thomas Pynchon novel, all the more disappointing because it was written by Pynchon himself.

Mira Corpora – Jeff Jackson

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I’d characterize Mira Corpora as a seduction. It heightens the pulse and warps the mind with the allure and cliffhangers of a sexy action flick.

Silence of the Animals – John Gray

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It enlivens the brain as it masticates, swallows and then defecates out the spirit.

My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain – Patricio Pron

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The difficulty of writing when one’s own story has been broken.

Someone – Alice McDermott

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You might be more ordinary than you usually like to think yourself.

John the Posthumous – Jason Schwartz

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I could not find an appropriate place to read this book, lest it become tainted by its deft and oh-so-pretty insidiousness.

Night Film – Marisha Pessl

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What can I say? The lure of the forbidden is powerful.

Idiopathy – Sam Byers

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Awake to both the subtly human and bitterly hysterical faces of contemporary life