This past year was a year of big novels and long texts. It's taken a bit of time for me to come around to appreciating longer works. more »

    Since Kurt's been doing the heavy lifting--the only lifting--on the blog for the past couple of months, I thought I might pipe up and chime in on what I've been reading. more »

Joel and I have spent a few hours lately thinking about Cormac McCarthy, particularly Blood Meridian which, as far as I know, seems to be his best book. Here's a couple of great videos to check out:   more »

    Sam Pink's terse new novel Person deals in all of the same despondent offhandedness that seems to have become generally ubiquitous in contemporary fiction--especially in young writers (heaven forbid that anyone actually purport to stand for somet… more »