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


at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Featured Post

Auggie's Revenge at Beating Windward Press

Beating Windward Press to Publish Alex Kudera’s Tragicomic Novel Illustrating Precarious Times for College Adjuncts and Contract-Wage Ame...

  • URL links for Fight for Your Long Day
    In theory, a book isn't alive unless it's snuggled comfortably in the reading bin in the bathroom at Oprah's or any sitting Pres...
  • willing to work? able? qualified? the usual questions remain
    Here's another article about American companies recruiting overseas to find capable workers--in this case, in manufacturing jobs. Toget...
  • other writers' Slovaks
    And, finally, near the end of Journey , Celine arrives at his Slovak beauty, a far cry from the meth-infested psychotic " no-neck Slova...
  • Wuhan, China
    Reading Little White Duck: A Childhood in China led me to Wuhan, China, a large sprawling city dissected by a huge river that Chairman Mao ...
  • Denis Johnson, R.I.P.
         In general-education contemporary literature courses, I almost always taught Denis Johnson's "Emergency," and would oft...