Jonathan Lethem’s Manhattan is a variation of the real one that a former child-actor still pulling in a chunk of change might have access to: a hot-pants dinner party with the mayor in a mansion where the carpeting on the stairs is so thick that a guest can climb soundlessly to the top and check [...]
My 2010 Year in Books is off to a good start with Jonathan Lethem’s witty, sparkling Chronic City.
Chase Insteadman, a blandly handsome former child star, has been drifting through Manhattan’s social scene for years, blissfully insulated from reality by the never-ending array of galas and an endless stream of residual checks from his former sitcom. [...]
Rain Taxi, the Minnesota-based Book Review journal, is raising funds by auctioning off very cool signed books and other bibliophile type things. You can bid on signed copies of Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian or a 1st edition of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (and his The Graveyard Book is there too).
Oh and [...]
Yeah, I cannot deny that I’m pretty excited to have Jake Mohan writing for MN Reads. I first discovered Jake’s writing years ago on his personal blog The Dependent Clause. His writing is so good that I cyberstalked him at Reveille and Utne. But now, I won’t have to look too far to find his [...]
I know, I know, it’s interview Tuesday and you’re stuck with book links. What a rip off. But thing might be a bit hinky here on MN Reads for the next week or so. I started a new job and I need to figure out a new routine.
P.S. Don’t forget Amy Bloom is [...]
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