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Mini-Review: “The Lying Life of Adults”

27 Jan 2021
The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante In short: I loved it! An intense, passionate, honest, vulgar, and sublime poetic telling of the young girl's coming-of-age in crime-ridden Naples.…
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Mini-Review: “Lithium for Medea”

20 Jan 2021
Lithium for Medea, by Kate Braverman An odd, passionate, and almost-perfect novel, written in a gush of negative ecstasy that echoes Allen Ginsberg's best work in but prose form, probably…
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Musings on Proust, Part Seven

12 Sep 2020
Hmm...the next book I called in to my library has not arrived yet, leaving me with only Proust for a day or two. While I have to admit that he…
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Musings on Proust, Part 1

27 Mar 202027 Mar 2020
I have at last begun reading Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. While the coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying restrictions have given me more time to read, I actually…
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Mini-Review: “River,” by Esther Kinsky

17 Feb 202018 Feb 2020
River, by Esther Kinsky Esther Kinsky's recent book, River, is not easy to categorize. Is it: A novel? A collection of linked short stories? An extended prose poem? A series…
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Mini Review: “Always Happy Hour,” by Mary Miller

27 Dec 2019
Always Happy Hour, by Mary Miller Always Happy Hour is a satisfying and ultimately dismaying collection of short stories that could have been a country & western song, and probably…
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Mini-Review: Yiyun Li’s “Where Reasons End”

18 Dec 2019
I just finished Yiyun Li's Where Reasons End, which might be called a conceptual novel, an experimental novel, perhaps an experimental memoir, or perhaps just a heart-wrenching and intellectually-challenging good…
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Micro-Review: “Cities I Never Lived In,” by Sara Majka

12 Dec 201912 Dec 2019
I just finished a collection of linked short stories, Cities I've Never Lived in, by Sara Majka. This is a collection of linked short storiesI heard of from some ten-best…
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Book Review: “Ducks, Newburyport,” by Lucy Ellman

30 Nov 2019
Ducks, Newburyport is a new novel both celebrated and feared for its audacity: a single stream-of-consciousness sentence nearly one thousand pages long, paused but not interrupted by concisely-written chapters of a…
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“Just Finished….” (Three Micro-Reviews)

10 Oct 201912 Oct 2019
These are micro-reviews I posted recently on the delightful Facebook readers' group, First Edition, sponsored by the London Times.  Just finished The Wallcreeper, by Nell Zink, and enjoyed it thoroughly!…

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