January 2010
1 post
“A guide through the nine rings of Narco-Hell. Jerry Stahl is the Dante of...”
– Mark Mothershaugh of Devo on Permanent Midnight
September 2009
1 post
“Did you read Beryl Markham’s book, West With the Night? I knew her fairly...”
– Ernest Hemingway on West With the Night
April 2009
1 post
“Astonishing… part oral history and part midnight diary in a world where...”
– Los Angeles Reader on The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
March 2009
6 posts
“The perfect antidote to lyrical India.”
– Publishers Weekly on The White Tiger
“Bernhard writes like a sacred monster… a man who goes to extremes in ways...”
– Wall Street Journal on The Loser
“Chandler wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.”
– The New Yorker on The Long Goodbye
“In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver’s characters...”
– Inside flap of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“The title refers to the town’s disused chemical plant that lies rotting and...”
– Niall Griffiths on The Glister
“Artful and sophisticated…truly unusual. Imagine Lewis’s Babbitt...”
– The New York Times on The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
February 2009
8 posts
“I had to tell someone (and it might as well be you since you’re the...”
– Groucho Marx on The Dud Avocado
“Desperate Characters, with its bristling, hilarious dialogue and echoey,...”
– Jonathan Lethem on Desperate Characters
“O’Neill writes a prose of Banvillean grace and beauty, shimmering with...”
– Joseph O’Connor on Netherland
“Annoyingly brilliant”
– Will Leitch on Free Darko’s Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac
“An ark bearing all the strange salvage of poetry and youth from catastrophes...”
– Nicole Krauss on The Savage Detectives
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“A revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors.”
– San Francisco Chronicle on Lolita
“The characters are zany like those in comic strips. The book is froth, and like...”
– Randall Dudley on A Confederate General from Big Sur
“The book is an aria and a wolf-whistle of our half century. It contains...”
– Michael Ondaatje on Underworld 