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Tag Archives: urban space
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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Head Off & Split
Head Off & Split is a collection of poetry by Nikky Finney, © Northwestern University Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, american dream, american history, american themes, bodies, book review, contemporary poetry, domestic space, domesticity, feminism, knowledge, labor, national book award, nikky finney, poetry, power, retrospective, rosa parks, sonnet sequence, sonnets, urban space
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1Q84
1Q84 is a novel by Haruki Murakami and translated by Jay Rubin (Books 1 & 2) and Philip Gabriel (Book 3), © Knopf 2011
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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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
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