February 2012
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For The National, I reviewed Krys Lee’s short story collection, Drifting House.
I went to see Belinda McKeon and Colm Tóibín at The Center for Fiction and wrote about it for Capital New York.
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Over at Bookforum, I reviewed The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.
Certain writers are too weird to fully belong to their own time. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky—a Soviet writer obsessed with Kant and Shakespeare, whose own life barely rippled beyond a small coterie of Muscovite writers before his death in 1950—is among them. Krzhizhanovsky wrote philosophical works of fiction that...
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In Tablet, I wrote about why Michael Chabon’s growing success as a screenwriter—he co-write “John Carter,” which Disney will release next month—may be bad news for fans of his fiction.
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The circuitous return of Steven Van Zandt, wise... →
For Capital New York, I reviewed “Lilyhammer,” the first original series from Netflix.
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For The Daily Beast, I talked to Alex Gilvarry about his novel From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant. I was really taken by the way in which books like this—a satire of both the fashion industry and the post-9/11 security state—manage to lampoon and almost anticipate our reality.
Ours is now a culture that overflows with the absurd, to the point where it substitutes for reality....