Chris's bookshelf: read
Simon Garfield’s To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing is an entertaining journey through the history of the (mostly personal) letter, starting with fragments from Roman Vindolanda (85–130 A.D.) to modern day wri...
I’ve been on such a reading high lately that Drop City is, despite its many and various strengths, a bit of a letdown. I’ve only read a smattering T.C. Boyle’s many novels and scads of short stories, but I still came to this novel expect...
The Blue Guitar isn’t John Banville’s best work, but it’s the one that practically requires me to proclaim Banville one of the best writers of our time. His quiet prose is nonpareil, an adjective I employ not to be snobbish, but because ...
It wasn’t the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.
I read A Separate ...
