Our staff’s reading list for October includes books by Jhumpa Lahiri, Aimee Bender, Allan Gurganus, Lisa Fugard, Naomi Wolf, Jane Smiley, Bob Hicok, and other authors.
Tag Archives: Jonathan Lethem
What We’re Reading: October 2013
Posted in What We're Reading Also tagged Allan Gurganus, Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley, Jhumpa Lahiri, Julian Barnes, Naomi Wolf, Richard Powers
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Jonathan Lethem and Better Literary Conversations: Monday’s Margins
Monday’s Margins: Fast Machine Apocalypses and Stephen King’s Talking Head
“You could say these stories are meant to shock, but we all know that we live in an unshockable age.”
January/February 2012 Reading List: Chronic City, Matterhorn, and The Obamas
I’m finishing up Lethem’s Chronic City and Hugh Barker/Yuval Taylor’s Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music.
10 Best Books I Didn’t Read in 2011
Seriously. I go to Malaprop’s all the time and pick this book up and read the praise and think, “Wow, this must be a fucking great book.”
Posted in Book Rate Also tagged Anna-Lynne Williams, Denis Johnson, Neal Pollack, Susan Orlean, Vanessa Veselka
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Chronic City: Review of Jonathan Lethem’s Eighth Novel
First, I am not the strong reader I might like to be. Second, I found Chronic City tedious, boring, and uninspiring. Third, the second might find cause in the first.
