Magnificent Octopus

Zebra, by Victor Vasarely The following days were strange. It was as is until then we had all been dreaming and had suddenly woken to rea...

The Black Spider , by Jeremias Gotthelf, has an incredibly high creepiness factor. The exceedingly creepy cover should have fully primed my ...

Roberto Bolaño can be wildly exuberant, and thus exhausting, and I have learned my lesson with him, as with some other authors — not to read...

At the time Lola was twenty-two, and she was strong-willed and smart, up to a point, of course, because if she'd been really smart, she ...

He continued to work with his Russian teacher, Andrescovich, but something had started to go wrong with the mechanism. The young Polish mast...

I picked up Granta's sex issue a while ago as it seemed to feature even more than the usual lot of great and interesting-to-me writers....

2666 , by Roberto Bolaño, is difficult. It's rich with imagery and ideas, most of which feel connected but which connections are near i...

Claire and Stefanie win The Savage Detectives and 2666 respectively, both books by Roberto Bolaño. Email me with your snail mail addre...

With books, of course! To share some of the awesome literary love I've been experiencing lately, I'd love to give away a couple of b...

I left off from Roberto Bolaño's 2666 in order to read David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest along with a couple thousand other peo...

It's been some time since I read part 2 of Roberto Bolaño's 2666 (I'm near the end of part 4, and reading some books alongside ...

It's a disconcerting feeling to watch the blue arrow leave the road, the only road, on the GPS, watch the road drop out of the bottom of...

I've never really planned my summer reading before, but then, my child has never finished a school year before, so it happens that we...

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, li...

I'm greatly enjoying Roberto Bolaño's 2666 . By sheer coincidence, of which I have the luxury, I stumbled upon a bloggers' discu...

If all experience is more than the sum of its parts, is it in any way possible to reconstruct a semblance thereof by analyzing its constitue...