Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza was announced the surprise winner of the Ridenhour Book Prize last week according to the Los Angeles Times. I just read Footnotes in Gaza a couple of weeks ago, and it’s fantastic. For the first … Continue reading
Thomas Pynchon and Grand Theft Auto. (Via Bookninja.) http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/2009/10/09/gta-iv-inherent-vice-city/?xid=rss-topstories http://www.bookninja.com/?p=6196 “In a feature about Under The Volcano author Malcolm Lowry, included in Criterion’s fine Under The Volcano DVD, the narrator casually mentions that Lowry’s ‘incredibly tiny penis made him a … Continue reading
Louis Menand has a review in The New Yorker of one of the new releases currently at the top of my wishlist, Thomas Pynchon’s crime novel, Inherent Vice. (This even though I’ve been reading Mason & Dixon off and on … Continue reading
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