A few things about Haruki Murakami
I just read Pinball, 1973, by my very favorite author, Haruki Murakami. It was the first book I read on my super-cool new Kindle. If you search the name on Google, followed by pdf, you’ll find a long list of files to download because it’s so expensive. For whatever reason, Murakami doesn’t want it published […]
How White Noise changed my life…when I was 14
I spent a week reading White Noise for my modern fiction class. This book was why I signed up for the class in the first place, and I was terribly excited. It’s totally different than how I remembered it. I read White Noise the summer after my freshman year of high school. Before summer break, […]
Martin Amis is fantastic, too.
About a week ago, I declared my love for Philip Roth. Now, he is not alone. Because Martin Amis is fantastic, too. I’m terrible about remembering books I’ve read, even just a couple months after I’ve read them. I figure this might help a bit. Or, at least, it’ll amuse me for a few minutes. […]
Why I’m in love with Philip Roth
So, you say, maybe you shouldn’t declare your love for an author when you’ve only read one of his books. And maybe I shouldn’t. But I am. And here, in a series of quotes, is why. I sure as hell hope my mother doesn’t read this. The bus, the bus, what intervened on the bus […]