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Book review: Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?
Books Comments Aug 29, 2012 9:05pmThe title of Sheila Heti’s breakthrough novel — the one that’s being talked about in bohemian enclaves from Williamsburg to Silver Lake, from Toronto to Portland — is How Should A Person Be?, and it’...
Review of Kurt Andersen’s True Believers
Books Comments Aug 15, 2012 5:01pmIf someone you don’t know tells you that you can trust them, you probably can’t. Trust is earned by repetition of experience or through a defining act that reveals some essential human characteristic...
Waiting for the king: A review of Dave Eggers’ latest book
Books Comments Aug 08, 2012 7:46pmDave Eggers is an impossibly energetic literary impresario. After bursting onto the scene with his charmingly brilliant memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in 2000, he leveraged his...
A sock in the face: A look back at Gore Vidal’s famous feud
Books Comments Updated: Aug 09, 2012 3:14pmThe occasion: Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s stint as commentators for ABC during the network’s coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. The fun begins, in the blurry, black-...
The Bourne inevitability
Books Comments Aug 01, 2012 5:16pmOur mission: With The Bourne Legacy, starring Jeremy Renner, opening in theaters next week, let’s examine the most recent Bourne print legacy, June’s The Bourne Imperative, by Eric Van Lustbader.It’s...
The big blah: a review of “Why Does the World Exist: An Existential Detective Story”
Books Comments Updated: Aug 08, 2012 5:27pmFor the eighth grade science fair, I decided to go big. None of this Proving Stuff Can’t Burn in a Vacuum or Documenting Planetary Movement for me. No, I wanted to know What Makes Us Die?I was smart...
A Las Vegas writer offers a glimpse into Gypsy culture
Books Comments Updated: Jul 25, 2012 6:18pmTHE GENESIS OF American Gypsy is almost as interesting as the story that unfolds within its pages. Oksana Marafioti was a young Las Vegas writer hoping to get her urban fantasy fiction published....
Clash of the titans: a nasty Steve Wynn-Donald Trump conflict
Books Comments Jul 18, 2012 6:48pmNear the end of Richard “Skip” Bronson’s “War at the Shore,” the author says he had lunch “not long ago” with former MGM Resorts International CEO Terrence Lanni. That’d be a neat trick, since Lanni’...
‘Not the novel I wanted to write’: Andrew Kiraly on the agonies, and joys, of miswriting his second book
Books Comments Jul 11, 2012 7:39pmLast year, Andrew Kiraly, a local writer and (disclosure alert!) former CityLife staffer, published his first novel, Crit, through (disclosure alert!) CityLife Books. He immediately started a second...
A tribute to Ray Bradbury by Mark Dery
Books Comments Jul 06, 2012 6:17pmThe Million-Year Picnic is over. Ray Bradbury — chronicler of a starward migration that never came; vintner of dandelion wine; barker on the midway of the Middle American unconscious, ballyhooing...
