Recently a friend asked me to make a list of books I would recommend for someone who would like to read some serious literature, and in doing so, I realized that a list like this could serve as a useful primer for anyone who reads what I write in this space. That being said, what ...
{ 0 comments }
I’m always interested in tracing the lineage of art, of finding an indication of what influenced an artist, and of discovering what aspects of a past novel, for instance, have been adopted and repeated by contemporary novelists. It’s a small thing, but I feel as though I more thoroughly understand Philip Roth’s American Pastoral when ...
{ 0 comments }
I like to buy books for people as gifts. I do this with the awareness that most of the books I purchase will never be finished and most likely not even begun. I don’t know what it is about me—whether buying books or writing in this space—that instills me with the compulsion to thrust things ...
{ 2 comments }
