Two years ago, on a balmy summer day, I wistfully meandered around The Coop bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was in town visiting my good friend Tyler (whose blog I have to advocate as essential reading if you’re into the philosophy of religion and cultural criticism) and, as always, I was also looking for something [...]
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Halloween and Hardware
With this week’s post, I won’t be writing about a single book in particular, but rather about an author. And that author is none other than the brilliant Kurt Vonnegut, who died (to my, and likely his, chagrin) over two years ago. Vonnegut has been on my mind for about a week or so, ever [...]
If Death Ever Had a Voice
Last week, three people on three separate occasions told me that I absolutely must read Juan Rulfo, especially if I loved Gabriel García Márquez (which I do). I took these recommendations and stored them in one of the tertiary parts of my brain for a later date; one not so fraught with [...]
Proustian Solutions
If you’re anything like me (i.e. deeply insane), you’ve probably tried to read Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu in its entirety a dozen times or more. Because honestly: who doesn’t long to spend months painstakingly reading a seven-volume work of French modernist literature for no reason other than having [...]
Even More Darkness
Perhaps due to the relative closeness of Halloween, I’ve been writing about a lot of dark books lately. And this week is no different (I promise, I’ll try to stop soon). For today’s post, I wanted to write about a book I stumbled across when I was in junior high that has [...]
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