Wiggle Room
Have you read it yet? The New Yorker this week is running an excerpt from a posthumous David Foster Wallace novel, The Pale King, unfinished but apparently several hundred thousand words in length, and...
View ArticleJ. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
The best appraisal I’ve read of Salinger’s legacy is Walter Kirn’s tribute in the February 18th issue of Rolling Stone. Kirn writes that Salinger “single-handedly invented the great American teenager”...
View ArticleAlthough of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
David Lipsky Broadway Books 2010 Reviewed by Bob Wake In the sad days following the suicide of 46-year-old writer David Foster Wallace in September 2008, when the Internet seemed to spontaneously erupt...
View ArticleSacred Bond
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker: Was Jesus one with God in the sense that, say, Sean Connery is one with Daniel Craig, different faces of a single role, or in the sense that James Bond is one with Ian...
View ArticleRosebud 51
Rosebud 51 is smokin’ hot off the press and ready for readers and coffee tables. Order the issue direct from the Rosebud website. Worth owning alone for the cover art and inside illustrations by...
View ArticleFox 8: A Story
Fox 8: A Story George Saunders Random House 2013 Reviewed by Bob Wake According to the L.A. Times literary blog Jacket Copy, George Saunders chose to leave “Fox 8” out of his recently published...
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