National Book Award winners. . .
So glad I snagged a copy of Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke at the ALA conference last summer. I've not heard one bad thing about this book.
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A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
Oy, I haven't read TREE OF SMOKE, but I was kind of rooting for THEN WE CAME TO THE END by Joshua Ferris. The same goes for Edwidge Danticat's BROTHER, I'M DYING. I guess it's a good thing I didn't be any money. = )
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of them. I do have the Johnson and the Berlinski (MFS kindly sent me a copy), so I was rooting for one of those two.
ReplyDeleteB R Myers wrote a hilarious review of Tree of Smoke in this month's Atlantic magazine. Not a flattering review. It's here:
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That B.R. Myers. He never likes anything I like.
ReplyDeleteLet us have a review as soon as you finish Smoke. I'd trust your opinion more than Myers' - though it was an amusing review.
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See my new post here:
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