The Fifty Year Sword – Mark Danielewski
Once it has been established that our assumptions about reading are arbitrary, to keep issuing reminders without demonstrating how literature might be approached differently makes the effort seem like gimmickry.
For all his supposed nihilism and self-proclaimed untaggability, Eliot’s story is archetypal.
We witness a character endeavoring to recreate the past in the vast country of the present, knowing all along that it is futile. But why should futility be discouraging?
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City
It’s a bad time to be an Arizonan.
Three Strong Women – Marie NDiaye
NDiaye’s women are not strong due to their ability to overcome their trials or by doing something extraordinary.
Telegraph Avenue – Michael Chabon
Chabon can’t be separated from his aching nostalgia and whimsical tropes.
Ghost Dances – Josh Garrett-Davis
“Coming and going is the only thing native to the Plains,” Josh Garrett-Davis writes, which makes him a South Dakota native through-and-through.
How To Get Into the Twin Palms – Karolina Waclawiak
A book trying to say something that cannot be said directly. A book so full of spaces between clouds.
Most of the stories in WE’RE FLYING depict more quotidian anxieties than a crisis of faith.
Many chapters focus on the buildup to a dramatic turning point, ending just before the realization or confrontation occurs.