At the LA Times, Scott Esposito gives David Lipsky‘s Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace a mixed review.
On The Road With DFW
Tuesday New Release Day: Ball; Offill; Cash; Finch; Quindlen
Out this week: Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball; Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill; This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash; The Last Enchantments by Millions contributor Charles Finch; My Life in Middlemarch by New Yorker staff writer (and Millions interviewee) Rebecca Mead; and Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen. For more on these and other new titles, check out our Great 2014 Book Preview.
Bridget Jones and the Misprint
You'd expect excessive swearing, smoking, and sex in a Bridget Jones novel, but a few copies of Mad About the Boy have accidentally included 40 pages of English actor's David Jason's memoir, My Life. Publisher Penguin Random House has admitted to the hilariously postmodern mistake. To find out what's really in the book, read an excerpt at NPR.
A Beginner’s Guide to Drugs For Girls
Tasteless and horrifying--nay, even a sign of the apocalypse--or rather excellent advice for college-bound young ladies? You decide: Vice Magazine's "A Beginner's Guide to Drugs For Girls." (A taste: "Here are some pointers for the beginners out there so you can get high without becoming that girl slumped in the corner of the night bus with vomit all over your shoes and lockjaw so bad your teeth have all snapped in half.")
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Hospital Hijinks
Recommended Reading: The first chapter from Scott McClanahan's The Sarah Book, "OH MY GOD."
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Clickity Clack
Where did Modernism come from? Did it spring from the alienation engendered by the nineteenth century? Or did it spring instead from -- as Hannah Sullivan argues in her new book, The Work of Revision -- the typewriter?
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Marr Resigns
Politico reporter Kendra Marr was forced to resign her position this week after New York Times writer Susan Stellin alerted Marr's editors to similarities between her transportation policy story published Sept. 26 and Marr's story published Oct. 10. An investigation by Politico into Marr's work found seven instances of likely plagiarism. Regret the Error points out that Politico should call Marr's stories what they are: serious plagiarism.
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I was working on reviewing this book – and failed. I don’t know how interesting the result is, but it’s posted here: http://bit.ly/aZ4SN3