May 10, 2018
Everyone Dies: Found Annotations in BASS 2016
When I checked out a library copy of Best American Short Stories 2016, I found more than the twenty short stories selected that year. As it turns out, many of these […]
December 30, 2015
Land of Nod
In the past week I’ve read three books, each of which focuses on a different problem. In Laura van den Berg’s Find Me, the problem is memory. In Chester Brown’s […]
May 7, 2015
How the West Inverted its Literary Values
In a true missing-the-forest-for-the-trees phenomenon, modern literary criticism has left unremarked, to my knowledge at least, the totally anomalous body of “great literature” that has come out of Europe and […]
April 16, 2014
Second Sleep
So, like I said (or like Chekhov said), We shall rest. But that rest may still be a long way off. In the meantime (ominous word, meantime), we have Karen […]
April 8, 2014
First Sleep
I downloaded Karen Russell’s Sleep Donation last week on the same evening my partner and I were sleep-training (or trying to sleep-train) our four-month-old daughter. Why read about sleeplessness, when […]