Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
This eerie novel, with its singsong cadences and deceptively simple sentences, is nothing short of mesmerizing. It opens on a scene of desctruction: drowned animals float around in the aftermath of a flood as an eccentric British family and their...
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Making Scenes
There are a lot of horrifying yet quotidian experiences that fiction rarely depicts. This book is full of them. But its narrator isn't trying to shock or disgust you, or to provoke your sympathy. She is simply describing: incest, bulimia,...
Emily Books Quarterly #102
These essays were produced during our second three months in operation and they're about the three books we read during that time. Those books were: Sempre Susan, Sigrid Nunez's memoir being intensely mentored by Susan Sontag; Glory Goes and Gets...
Lightning Rods
Lightning Rods is the story of Joe, a salesman whose masturbatory fantasies lead him to create an invention that decreases sexual harassment in offices in an very unusual way. No one writes novels like this anymore, so it can be...
the buddhist
Crushes are the best. They are also the worst. In the buddhist Dodie Bellamy renders both of these extremes with precision and immediacy, using the lens of her own breakup with a Buddhist teacher. The book began as a blog that...
Sempre Susan
Sempre Susan is novelist Sigrid Nunez's brief, stinging memoir of her life tucked under the wing of Susan Sontag, who was her mentor, great influence, tormentor, and boyfriend's mother. At the age of 25, Nunez, a recent Columbia...
Glory Goes and Gets Some
These stories follow our heroine Glory from a privileged but horrible Upper East Side childhood to the East Village and heroin addiction to rehab in Minnesota and HIV diagnosis. In Minneapolis, Glory discovers the boring-slash-transcendent everyday life that's her reward...
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