Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki – Haruki Murakami
The real beauty of the books, Colorless Tsukuru and all the rest, comes from the intimate relationship Murakami has with his readers.
The Future for Curious People – Gregory Sherl
Let’s just say that if this book were turned into a sitcom or a summer blockbuster, it would star Zooey Deschanel and Paul Rudd.
Why do we tell stories, and does reality change just a little when they aren’t true?
In a sea of linguistic uncertainty, the locus of meaning, that original word, is more often than not established solely through force.
Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours – Luke B. Goebel
Short sentences are followed by half-page, single-sentence paragraphs that read like David Foster Wallace channeling Hunter S. Thompson.
Volodine’s writers, as it turns out, write because they must kill.
The Luminol Reels – Laura Ellen Joyce
You can afford to read The Luminol Reels, which runs a slender ninety-seven pages, multiple times. Plan on doing so.
We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm – Lola Lafon
Lafon’s is a novel that asks, in certain ways, not to be reviewed.
Paper Lantern & Ecstatic Cahoots – Stuart Dybek
For all the stories about love and broken hearts that exist, Dybek does more than add his Chicagoan twist.
Wolf in White Van – John Darnielle
It is about life being hard, getting much worse, and then living with the practically unthinkable. Wolf in White Van is a tragedy.