Saturday, December 28, 2013

some fiction I read in 2013

Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis

Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

The Incorporation of Eric Cheung by Stephen C. Lo

Changing Places by David Lodge

My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews

Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children by Dave Newman

Cartilage and Skin by Michael James Rizza

The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

I Married A Communist by Philip Roth

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie


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