I’m done! Woo-hoo and thank God. With the last page of Finnegan’s Wake, I have now read every book on the Random House Modern Library list of the Best Novels […]
Probably 15 or so years ago, when I was first struggling with writing and realizing I needed to read a lot more fiction, an author I knew suggested looking at […]
I’ve only read a tiny fraction of the hundreds of literary journals and e-zines out there, so this list is limited to The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly (two of […]
I read a lot of books this year but, as is typically the case, most of them were older than 2011. Here are the books published this year (or close […]
Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Good Squad is the perfect book for the digital age. Just imagine trying to assemble someone’s life from fragments, analog and digital: […]
Benjamin Percy’s short story “Refresh, Refresh” came up in every writing workshop I took last year. We read it twice. At least one person admitted crying over it. People were […]
In quite an amazing feat (for me), I’ve already finished Jonathan Franzen’s heavily hyped novel Freedom. (The amazing thing is not that I read it, but that I did so […]