Archive for November, 2006
New Monson: Non-Fiction
I can’t wait to read the new Ander Monson book: Neck Deep and Other Predicaments: Essays
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Pynchon’s New Novel…
Someone doesn’t like Against the Day:
Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, “Against the Day,” reads like the sort of imitation of a Thomas Pynchon novel that a dogged but ungainly fan of this author’s might have written on quaaludes.
But she often gets her panties in wad, right? Here’s another take on it. And another. I’ll have to [...]
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The 10th Anniversary Tickle Me Elmo, TMX Elmo, was released in late September. Things have come a long way in 10 years; TMX Elmo can fall down, roll over, and return to standing position. He can do all of this while laughing hysterically, as well as bang his fist on the floor, fling his feet [...]
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The Graphic Issue
The 29th issue of Tin House came in the mail the other day, and all I can say is Wow, just wow. It’s subtitled “The Graphic Issue,” and that’s absolutely what it is. There are excerpts from graphic novels, a graphic essay, and get this, the forward from Gravity’s Rainbow Illustrated. That’s right, somebody illustrated [...]
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