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Tag Archives: new york city
Winter Journal
Winter Journal is a memoir by Paul Auster, © Henry Holt 2012
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged body, book review, contemporary memoir, gender, loneliness, love, memoir, new york city, pain, perspective, physical experience, physical space, second person
2 Comments
The New Clean
The New Clean is a collection of poems by Jon Sands, © Write Bloody 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged age, aging, book review, childhood, contemporary poetry, growing up, love, new york city, New York subway, poetry, regression, slam poetry, spoken word, time, trains, transportation
6 Comments
Super Sad True Love Story
Super Sad True Love Story is a novel by Gary Shteyngart, © Random House 2010
Posted in Book Review
Tagged aging, America, book review, books, cheating death, consumerism, contemporary fiction, credit, death, fear of death, fiction, future, futuristic, loneliness, love, media, new york city, novel, postmodernism
1 Comment
Open City
Open City is a novel by Teju Cole, © Random House 2011 You hadn’t heard about Cormac’s Olivetti? Check it out.
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, classics, contemporary, contemporary fiction, debut, emotional weight, fiction, lens, lonely, narrator, new york city, novel, perspective, postmodernism, reading, trust, urban space
12 Comments
Zone One
Zone One is a novel by Colson Whitehead, © Doubleday 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged aftermath, book review, boredom, contemporary fiction, death, fiction, mediocrity, new york city, normality, post-apocalyptic, supernatural, survivor, violence, zombie apocalypse, zombies
5 Comments
Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann, © Random House 2009.
Posted in Book Review
Tagged 9/11, contemporary, fiction, iraq war, new york city, postmodernism, vietnam war
7 Comments
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