by Patrick on November 18, 2009
On The Morning News today, V.L. Hartmann has a piece about Joan Didion’s resonance with a new generation of writers, many of them women: For some of us, mimicking Joan Didion has become the height of literary ambition, and not just her sentences. “Goodbye to All That” is a jumping-off point, California will fall short [...]
by Patrick on October 1, 2009
As regular readers of this site know, I contributed to the “pro” list of The Millions Best Books of the Millennium (So Far). You can read what I had to say about one of the books chosen by popular decree, Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, here. As I stated on this blog, however, I [...]
