Reviews

The archive lists reviews posted to this site in order of appearance and also an alphabetical list of keywords. Since 2007, I’ve also posted ~800 quick and usually brief impressions of books (95% novels) on Goodreads. Here’s my profile. (Note: GR, despite now being owned by Amazon, is the only social media site I really check daily and the only one I’ve never considered quitting.) But I’ve also contributed a few reviews elsewhere, although not so much recently in part because I’d prefer to thumb out immediate impressions to the Goodreads app and then upload select reviews to LFF.

On February 8, 2016, Vice posted my interview with Álvaro Enrigue about his new novel Sudden Death (translated by Natasha Wimmer).

On December 31, 2014, Proustitute posted a very brief thing I wrote about Jens Bjørneboe’s “The History of Bestiality” trilogy.

On December 18, 2014, the Brooklyn Rail posted and printed an ~2K-word review I contributed entitled Warm Core: The Unusually Associative Cyclonic System of Ben Lerner’s 10:04

On December 8, 2014, 3AM Magazine posted a review called More Than That: Contemporary Complexity in Mathias Énard’s Street of Thieves

On July 21, 2014, the London-based 3AM Magazine posted an essay/review called Literary Citizenship Depletes Crystal Count and Other Controversial Claims. As noted in the title, I intended for some of what I wrote to be a bit controversial — and it was! This essay/review also included Tweet embeds and a magic-eye pic.

I contributed a ~2K-word review of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle Book Three posted by the Philadelphia Review of Books on April 24, 2014.

I contributed ~4K words on Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle Book Two and ~3K words on Owen King’s Double Feature to the Philadelphia Review of Books on May 23, 2013 and March 20, 2013, respectively — not to mention ~1.5K on Rudolph Wurlitzer’s Slow Fade on January 16, 2013.

Impressions of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King appeared in the form of a workshop-type response in the summer 2011 issue of The Lifted Brow. Available here in somewhat different form.