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74Pulphead, Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
This morning on the CBS Morning Show Charlie Rose was reporting on an exotic animal compound in Oklahoma City and how dangerous to humans it could be since it is situated in the heart of the country's Tornado Alley. There are over one hundred lions and tigers fenced in together in this so-called largest rescue reserve in the nation. The compound's owner expressed his displeasure in the government's possible cracking down and limiting of these types of operations, and he threatened another Waco o
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68Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
I figured I would order a copy from my local library and if I didn't like it I could return it with no harm done. I did get my library copy around the time of Thunder Over Louisville which takes place two weeks before the running of the Kentucky Derby. It is the grand, and certainly in many ways most disgusting, kick-off for all the Derby festivities to come.
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68And She Will Wake Before You Pass
It isn't hard for me to imagine the countless other affairs similar to Ernaux's that haven't been so consciously visited as thoroughly and made into a book for our public consumption. The fact that Ernaux's sexual passion for a younger married man is confessed to and described in total here between the covers of this book makes the actions of these lovers no more and no less palatable than anything Marguerite Duras may have written for us several years before. They are both very talented writers
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69An Essay Not Necessarily True
Ander Monson is not the only writer coming from the bowels of northern Michigan. It is to my own credit that I hailed also from that northern clime of hostility and the need for gloves. The weather can be as brutal as the economy.
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67A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
I got interested in reading this biography of Richard Yates because of what a writer said in her review of the book. She said that if one were to read this six hundred page monster and not want to read his novel Revolutionary Road again, or even for the first time, then that person might just as well be dead. Or something to that effect.
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62The Sadness of Antonioni by Frank Lentricchia
Almost from the very beginning of The Sadness of Antonioni I feel Lentricchia is messing with me. Who else would have written into his novel a love interest of a renowned college professor working behind the counter at Wendy's? The result being that their love together tends to be between equals as it becomes more plain to see as the novel progresses.
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70Another Side of Norman Mailer
Creative nonfiction is a genre I am most deeply interested in and I am thankful for Norman Mailer and Truman Capote who both helped create it. I can see the bully Ernest Hemingway beating up my favorite poet Wallace Stevens down in Key West, but it is very hard for me to imagine Norman Mailer head-butting Truman Capote anywhere, but that is the myth surrounding these two men and their literary relationship.
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59Erpenbeck Leaves Her Hole In My Bucket
I am a big fan of Jenny Erpenbeck. Perhaps an even bigger fan of Susan Bernofsky, the gifted translator of both Erpenbeck's and Robert Walser's literary works. It isn't enough to drop the anointed names of Bernhard and Walser to me, and then offer some mystical or spiritual idea that Erpenbeck was spawned from them.
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59FROST, the First Novel Written by Thomas Bernhard
Nothing written by Thomas Bernhard is a dream to read so I am not going to argue a point over which novel of his is most accessible for dumber people than another. If you like Thomas Bernhard you will like this book.
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71Life Is with People by Atticus Lish
I have gone ahead and made for you a little list of reasons why you might want to buy this book besides the obvious ones of possibly making a new friend and, or, feeling another person's rage instead of your own for a welcome change. And don't get me wrong, it's not all rage, but I got to tell you there is some unhappiness in it.
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