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The Fifty Year Sword

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Katie Willingham

The Fifty Year Sword is a novel or a graphic novel or a prose poem. It is fiction. It is written by Mark Z. Danielewski, © Pantheon Books 2012

Posted in Book Review | Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, contemporary poetry, East Texas, epic poem, epic poety, Ergodic literature, fiction, fragments, frames, ghost story, ghosts, graphic novel, imagery, loneliness, novel, poetry, postmodernism, prose poem, prose poetry, supernatural, visual poetry, voice | Leave a comment

1Q84

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Katie Willingham

1Q84 is a novel by Haruki Murakami and translated by Jay Rubin (Books 1 & 2) and Philip Gabriel (Book 3), © Knopf 2011

Posted in Book Review | Tagged anonymity, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, Haruki Murakami, Japanese culture, language, loneliness, love, love story, modern Japan, moon, novel, postmodernism, supernatural, surreal, Tokyo, translation, urban landscape, urban space | Leave a comment

Tree of Codes

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Katie Willingham

Tree of Codes is a die-cut narrative by Jonathan Safran Foer, © Visual Editions 2010 A cool interview with Foer about the book is “Book as Art Object” in The New York Times

Posted in Book Review | Tagged book review, Bruno Shulz, childhood, coming of age, contemporary fiction, death, die-cut, disappearance, fantasy, fiction, frames, imagination, loneliness, perspective, postmodernism, reading process, reality, shadow, solitude, urban space, visual experience, writing process | 4 Comments

Super Sad True Love Story

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Katie Willingham

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

The Hall of the Singing Caryatids

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Katie Willingham

The Hall of the Singing Caryatids is a novel by Victor Pelevin and translated by Andrew Bromfield, © New Directions 2011 Not all the theorists mentioned in this book are real, but Wittgenstein is.

Posted in Book Review | Tagged book review, consumption, contemporary fiction, fantasy, female body, female perspective, fiction, language theory, novel, post-Soviet literature, postmodernism, power, Russia, Russian, Russian literature, science fiction, semiotics, supernatural, surreal, technology, translation | 2 Comments

Bringing the Shovel Down and Meat Heart

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Katie Willingham

Bringing the Shovel Down is a collection of poems by Ross Gay, © University of Pittsburgh Press 2011 Meat Heart is a collection of poems by Melissa Broder, © Publishing Genius Press 2012 **In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve also … Continue reading →