Someone Else's Martyr
"Erlandson's book occupies the uneasy intersection of two questionable impulses — the unedited rock star riffing on the young and the fallen."
"Erlandson's book occupies the uneasy intersection of two questionable impulses — the unedited rock star riffing on the young and the fallen."
"No other feature of our national landscape has the same lonely menace, the same panoramic yet stifling dread of an empty highway."
Franzen can’t help but give voice to his despair, but neither does he give it the last word, choosing to place his faith in the ruggedness of comedy.
"In 'Railsea,' Miéville uses salvage itself as a mode of writing."
"In reality, the integration of American sports was anything but a natural or organic process. It was a struggle."
"What may look at first like a slight novel from an aging author on second and third sight proves to be a sleight novel by an ageless master."
"For Robinson, America has declined because of pervasive and corrosive ideologies that ascribe human motivation solely to self-interest."
"Pornotopia has the same narrative problem all utopias do — a perfectly happy place is more fun to live in than it is to read about."
Each age gets the Sherlock Holmes it deserves.