Coast-to-coast commentary about books

A simple list


A simple list


A simple list


Here’s a thought: I’ll only read new books this year


Reading Banana Yoshimoto, Gregoire Bouilliere, Ismail Kadare and many others.


Playing rotisserie-league games to determine a writing champion


Reading “Unaccustomed Earth” by by Jhumpa Lahiri


Returning to “Franny and Zooey” and “Nine Stories” in the wake of Salinger’s death


Reading “The Volcano Lover” by Susan Sontag


Reading Roberto Bolaño, Lyudmilla Petrushevskaya, Aleksandr Hemon and others
