Wherein I dump a bunch of reviews into a single post in order to declutter the Unreviewed Lit Nook of my brain. M Train by Patti Smith This ain’t no Just Kids, Smith’s award-winner about…
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Jonathan Franzen, I’m not sure I get it
There’s something a little lonely and alienating about being on the opposite side of popular public opinion. In this case, I’m talking being one of the few people who did not fall head-over-heels in love…
Girl all I want right now is you
There is nothing that I can say about Jonathan Franzen’s superlative magnet that hasn’t been said by everyone from the official newspaper of record, to our cultural spokeswoman Oprah Winfrey, to 4 gazillion unknown word…
Tutsi Picnic
The cover is ugly. The spine features Jonathan Franzen’s name in big block letters, dwarfing the title. I was already sick of the whole Franzen phenomena before I started reading. I barely remember The Corrections,…