“The shade held no allure for me – I was here for a belly full of booze and the insouciant regret of a peeling sunburn. I’d sleep it off tomorrow and be back in the rotation on Monday with a fresh take on Herb’s high-minded theories on risk versus reward.”
Continue readingThomas Pynchon puts most other writers to shame with “Gravity’s Rainbow,” his surreal, mind-melting, madcap romp through post-war Europe.
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Continue readingListen up: Kurt Vonnegut speaks truth to power (and yes, he’s talking directly to YOU), in this melancholy meditation on the psychological costs of war and violence.
Continue reading“Don’t Worry, Be Happy!” – Muriel Barbery channels Leo Tolstoy (and Bobby McFerrin) in this rich little literary treatise on time.
Continue readingDenis Johnson’s starry-eyed protagonist fumbles towards ecstasy, in this lyrical collection of linked short stories about addiction, loss, and recovery.
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