It's impossible for me not to draw comparisons between Joshua Ferris' first novel, Then We Came To The End, and his second, The Unnamed. They struck me as so similar it's almost as if The…
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Someone needs a ghostwriter
In The Unnamed, Joshua Ferris invents a disease that can’t be defined as physical or psychological. It’s a something-or-other that sends Tim Farnsworth walking at inopportune moments. Something grabs a hold of his body, and…
Personal days lacks the personal
If you’ve had the “pleasure” of reading Joshua Ferris’ novel Then We Came to the End you can probably skip Ed Park’s Personal Days. The two books are so similar in tone and plot (right…