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Tag Archives: reality
The Dog Stars
The Dog Stars is a novel by Peter Heller, © Knopf 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged apocalypse, apocalypse fiction, book review, contemporary fiction, death, fiction, friendship, homosocial space, killing, loneliness, loss, male space, men, novel, reality, ruthlessness, violence, women
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The Convalescent
The Convalescent is a novel by Jessica Anthony, © McSweeney’s Books 2010
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, book review, butchering, butchers, change, communication, connection, contemporary fiction, destiny, fate, fiction, health, history, Hungarian, Hungarian history, immigrant American experience, immigrant experience, loneliness, meat, medication, midgets, mutes, novel, odd, pain, perspective, quirky, reality, transformation
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Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel by Ben Lerner, © Coffee House Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged abstract, American experience, art, authenticity, book review, boredom, contemporary fiction, contemporary novel, emotional weight, fiction, language, living abroad, loneliness, Madrid, novel, perspective, poetry, power, reality, Spain, translation, travel, urban space, writing process
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Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior is a novel by Barbara Kingsolver, © HarperCollins 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged adaptation, adultery, American south, book review, Christianity, contemporary fiction, culture, emotional weight, feminism, fiction, global warming, knowledge, loneliness, love, marriage, miracle, novel, perspective, power, reality, religion, southern culture, supernatural, women, women's issues
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You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake
You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake is a collection of poetry by Anna Moschovakis, © Coffee House Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged anna moschovakis, argument, book review, cantos, coffee house press, contemporary poetry, death, emmanuel levinas, essay, fragments, poetry, power, process, reading process, reality, scientology, thesis, violence, wittgenstein
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Replacement
Replacement is a novel by Tor Ulven and translated by Kerri A. Pierce, © Dalkey Archive Press 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, depression, dreams, fiction, loneliness, meaning, novel, old age, poetry, prose poetry, reality, translation, vignettes
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Tree of Codes
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
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Varamo
Varamo is a novel by César Aira and translated into English by Chris Andrews, © New Directions 2012
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Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, masterpiece, novel, perspective, reality, supernatural, translation, writing, writing process
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