1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken:This was the best book I read all year. No hemming, no hawing, no second guessing — the best. McCracken’s memoir about giving birth to a stillborn child and all that follows is heartbreaking, darkly funny, and something everyone on the planet should [...]
Andrew Davidson’s debut novel The Gargoyle, is the kind of book that gives me nextbookaphobia. This is a condition marked by great fear of starting a new book because there is no way that it can possibly live up to the last book you read, because that last book was really fucking good. I’ve experienced [...]
I’ve been trying to write about Elizabeth McCracken’s memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination for three weeks. I’ve read it twice and I’m still having a hard time finding the words. I do want to make this statement: This is unequivocally the best book I’ve read so far this year. This [...]
You can download Kelly Link’s short story collection Magic for Beginners FREE! I haven’t read the entire collection (it’s been sitting on my shelf for longer than I care to admit). However, her story “Stone Animals” is in this collection and that fan-fucking-weird-tastic story is worth the click alone. It’s available as a PDF, HTML [...]
Jezebel has posted a list of 75 books every woman should read. It’s a list compiled by Jezebel editors and readers. It’s response to Esquire’s 75 books every man should read. I think Jezebel did a good job with the list, though I wish they would have explained some of the selections like Esquire did. [...]
RIP David Foster Wallace. (Also in the LA Times). The bloggers at Amazon’s Omnivoracious share some DFW memories. Buzzfeed gathers a bunch of a links including videos and his Kenyon University speech. Poe’s “The Raven,” translated into 50s hipster. This is the awesome. Really. I love when my love of music collides with my love [...]
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