Books

I was just reading the August 11 & 18 issue of the New Yorker and the fiction piece "The Dinner Party" by Joshua Ferris is rad. Read it here.

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/08/11/080811fi_fiction_ferris?currentPage=all

Now that we're on the topic of the New Yorker, also read "The Lie" by T. Coraghessan Boyle here. It's from the April issue, and it's so good!

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/04/14/080414fi_fiction_boyle

Also, I began reading "After Dark," the latest release from Haruki Murakami, who is probably my favourite living author.

If you're one of the few who haven't read his work, do it. Begin with "The Wind up Bird Chronicle." The writing, even in translation, just gets under your skin. Sometimes authors, such as Hemingway and Nabakov, just kill me completely, and Murakami does that to me too.

Here is the New York Times review from 10 years ago:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800EED9133EF931A35752C1A961958260

Even though I studied English Literature, I don't really review stories and books unless I have some kind of specific response to them. Although, I do miss having built-in college friends around who read and talk about reading.