The Revolution of Every Day – Cari Luna
The knives aren’t what they used to be.
Very Recent History – Choire Sicha
Sicha makes us remember those intense moments and the tangles of our lives, both emotional and financial, which is how Very Recent History gets under our skins.
It is as if the atomistic building-blocks of his sentence-based universe had melted and run into one another.
Whispering Bodies – Jesse Michaels
His undoing is also that of punk rock
Bleeding Edge – Thomas Pynchon
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.
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
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
The difficulty of writing when one’s own story has been broken.
You might be more ordinary than you usually like to think yourself.
John the Posthumous – Jason Schwartz
I could not find an appropriate place to read this book, lest it become tainted by its deft and oh-so-pretty insidiousness.