Magnificent Octopus

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

It's a hundred years ago about this time of year that Marcel Proust holed himself up in a cork-lined room to begin writing A la recherch...

I first heard about Nick Hornby having a new book out from Maxine ( Petrona ), who highlighted a couple key points in a then recent Booksell...

Margaret Atwood rocks! I have to admit, I had a tough time at first giving myself over to her new novel, The Year of the Flood — it was exa...

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...

Helena tells me she's going to remember yesterday forever!: It was the best day of her whole entire life! And I'm the best mommy eve...

She was at least 75 years old, a frail stick figure with a punk shock of white on top and an orange lipstick to match her jacket. Some days ...

We took the cat out of the city to put the chat in chalet .

Mason Mason asks the obvious. "Why don't we write online? Aren't journals just dead blogs?" Russell has prepped three days...

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...

Every day, the last few weeks, I rush to check the mailbox. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting. Amid the usual bills and flyers I...

So yesterday, yesterday an urge came over me, an urge to buy a record album (do people buy those anymore? a CD? what if you download it, wha...

We are all of us pressed against the metro door. I am between a bongo-playing bongo player, with his bongo, and a robe-wearing, Krishna-read...

So at some point, about a week ago, I was ready to say this is an awesome book, this Infinite Jest , and while I spent much of the first cou...

Margaret Atwood has a new book coming out in a few weeks, The Year of the Flood , the website for which launched this weekend. The new nove...

Bedtime is a confessional state. Individuals praying to their Gods. Between lovers. For Helena when I tuck her in. "You know how some b...

I am finally on schedule and, according to the page count set out at Infinite Summer , 52.something% of the way through Infinite Jest , and ...

Today Helena plucked one ripe little tomato off its vine — the first of the season — and popped it in her mouth. Her face radiated with exqu...

Hamlet! Words, words, words: It don't get classier than this. Me love Danish!

So I've been trying to read a poem here and there, to keep my mind, my life, you know, poetic and all, and I have this volume of Janusz...