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Dave Eggers on Infinite Jest
Last week Little Brown published a new edition of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest featuring a new introduction by Dave Eggers. You can read the whole introduction here (thanks to Bob Tomorrowland...
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More Alphabet Soup: Brought to You Today by the Letter H
H is for Humbert Humbert, the rascally narrator of Vladamir Nabokov’s Lolita. Throughout the novel HH, a sardonic European, provides a running critique of conformist 1950s America, his adopted home....
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Stuff You Can Buy/Stuff That Is Free
Fiery Furnaces latest, Widow City drops today. I love it. It’s really good rocknroll. It’s great. You should buy it. You’ll love it. Or maybe you hate music? You don’t hate music, do you? Then prove...
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Away We Go — Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida
Away We Go is the story of Verona and Burt, an unmarried couple in their early thirties expecting a child. After discovering that the child’s only living grandparents will be moving to Belgium, Verona...
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The Anxiety of Influence
In her essay “The Naked and the Conflicted,” published in today’s New York Times, Katie Roiphe suggests that “we are awfully cavalier about the Great Male Novelists of the last century. It has become...
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In Brief: Beach’s Epistles, Vollmann’s Mummy Sex, and Eggers’s Wild Things
Sylvia Beach was the nexus point for Modernist and ex-pat literature for much of the first half of the twentieth century, running the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare & Company until the Nazi...
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Granta 110 Features Roberto Bolaño, Tom McCarthy, Dave Eggers, Sex
Subtly titled Sex, issue 110 of the long-running literary journal Granta hits stands this week, and it looks like a doozy. There’s a story by Roberto Bolaño called “The Redhead” about “a disturbing...
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The Joys of Random Reading
The New York Times published a little piece yesterday on the pleasures of finding–and reading–random books in vacation spots. From the article: “There is fate in the moldy, dog-eared paperbacks found...
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“—the bitter lapse into everyday life—the hideous dropping off of the veil”—...
After five five fun-filled (mostly) sun-soaked days on Florida’s glorious Gulf Coast, Biblioklept returns from July 4th reveries. I found time to finish Adam Langer’s The Thieves of Manhattan–full...
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet — David Mitchell
At some point, almost every character in David Mitchell’s new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet tells a story. The book teems with storytellers and their stories, overflows with compact...
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The Myth of The Vollmann
Europe Central: 832 pages Imperial: 1344 pages The Royal Family: 800 pages Rising Up and Rising Down: 3352 pages I still hesitate to believe that William T. Vollmann actually exists. Has anyone ever...
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Book Shelves #37, 9.09.2012
Book shelves series #37, thirty-seventh Sunday of 2012 Eggers, Dave. Beloved, reviled, sainted, hated. I wrote about Eggers at some length here already, so I won’t repeat myself. Tagged: book shelf...
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A Riff on What I Read (And Didn’t Read) in 2012
I didn’t really read that many new books—by which I mean books published in 2012—this year. The highlight of the new books I did read was Chris Ware’s Building Stories, the moving story of the lives...
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