The Mountains Are Strip-Mined: A Review of Scott McClanahan’s Hill William
Eric Nelson11.04.13
Scott McClanahan’s latest novel, Hill William, newly released from Tyrant Books, reheats the miracle beneath the darkness of the everyday. Eric Nelson reviews.
A Review of Lauren Shufran’s Inter Arma
Drew Kalbach11.03.13
Lauren Shufran’s Inter Arma confronts a hyper-sexual and violent aesthetic history in the voice of a militant duck. Drew Kalbach reviews.
A Review of Drake’s Nothing Was The Same ft. Philip Roth
Mark Baumer10.31.13
Mark Baumer reviews Drake’s Nothing Was The Same in the only way that a Drake album should be reviewed: with almost no description of the actual music.
What is Sought: A Review of Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City
Lucy Tiven10.21.13
Stark, slippery language and shape-shifting poems make The Eternal City a book worth defacing, underlining, annotating. Lucy Tiven reviews the best book of poetry she almost never bought.
IDGI: A Review of Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces
Janey Smith10.15.13
More than twenty years after its release, Janey Smith takes a bold-eyed look back at American music critic Greil Marcus’s mammoth Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century.
Review of Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole And A Half
Sarah Maria Griffin10.11.13
Set off against the millenial panicscape of a world where internet lists are a thing, Allie Brosh’s long-awaited book, like her webcomic, reads like the journal you’ve been too anxiety-ridden to keep. Sarah Griff dissects Brosh’s preternatural ability to remind us that we are going to be okay.
#YOLO: A Review of Jimmy Chen’s Dear Depressive
Jarett Kobek10.10.13
Formspring may no longer exists, but Jimmy Chen’s Dear Depressive archives the author’s quasi-candid reality-philosophizing tracts into a handy eBook of hilarious profundity. Jarett Kobek reviews.
Review of Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
Mark Asch10.04.13
Jonathan Lethem’s latest chapter of New York novels is in some sense “a commensurately “big book,” about family, and the promise and disappointment of the Left, its chronology-skipping chapters encompassing protest singers, hippie anarchist communes, Sandinistas, Quakers, queers, academic Theorists and Occupy crusties.” Ah but there’s more…
Six Steps To Being Salinger-Esque
Patrick Wensink09.30.13
Patrick Wensink watches the new J.D. Salinger biopic and gleans how you too can live a thrilling life of quiet isolation.
I Reviewed the Most Disturbing Children’s Book of All Time
Shane Jones09.12.13
Meta language that makes Calvino look like a pussy and design seemingly “concocted from a dinner date with Matt Furie and Ryan Trecartin”, “Oscar’s Book is basically twenty three pages of Oscar the Grouch yelling, specifically, at the reader and their child”. Shane Jones reviews the most disturbing (and one of the best) kids books ever.
