A Year In Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg
Simply put, Yoon Choi is the most ambitious and accomplished practitioner of the Chekhovian short story to appear in many years.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg
I should state for the record that I already vibrate at a sympathetic frequency with this novel, bursting into unaccountable tears every fifteen pages or so--and at different places each time.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg
The experience of suddenly gaining new ears for an author is one I can perhaps best compare to the effortless French fluency I sometimes achieve in dreams.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg
That I'm no longer immortal raises questions about the pursuit I've more or less given my life to—reading: If you can't take it with you, what's the point?
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A Story to Be Told Once and Forever: The Millions Interviews Javier Marías
And then the thing is that I don’t know exactly how I do my novels. Every time, I realize I don’t know how a novel is written.
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No Mexico, No Europe: The Millions Interviews Álvaro Enrigue
What happened in the middle there? Greed. That was the generation that discovered, “Huh, we can own the world. The world is something you can handle.”
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The Heroism in Saying No: The Millions Interviews Javier Cercas
We are all, in a sense, this guy; he's a perfect mirror of our time. This book says something awful: We prefer lies to the truth. Lies are beautiful.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg
If democracy dies in darkness, then dispense with the dreaming. Just give me the facts.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg
In the context of a government of men, Cercas suggests, real and durable greatness is marked by compromises, trade-offs, disappointments, and missed opportunities, rather than their absence. Not to give away the ending, but maybe politics is more like real life than we'd like to imagine.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg
Someone should Secret-Santa a copy of 'Preparation for the Next Life' to Donald Trump.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg
This is a terrific novel. I couldn't help wishing, as I did with so much of what I read this year, that my old man was still around, that I might recommend it to him.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg
Probably the single most perfect book I encountered in 2013 -- it didn't just reward my attention; it commanded it.
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The Bolaño Syllabus: A Final Reckoning
What you need to read, what you might want to, and what you can pass over without losing sleep.
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