Book Review (Reprinted from BookLoons)
Posted on May 18th, 2010
Sight Unseen
by Robert Goddard
When the prologue to Sight Unseen opens on a July afternoon in 1981, graduate student David Umber travels to Avebury.
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Review of CHINESE LETTER
Posted on February 13th, 2010
Chinese Letter
A Novel by Svetislav Basara
Dalkey Archive Press, November 2004
ISBN: 156478374X
Paperback: 132pp; $12.95
The protagonist of Chinese Letter, Fritz, if that really is his name as he claims, has been confronted by two mysterious men who may or may not exist.
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Review – Kafka
Posted on February 5th, 2010
Kafka by Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz
Fantagraphics Books
978-1-56097-806-0
Trade Paperback
Franz Kafka said, “What do I have in common with the Jews?
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More from my Book Review Archives
Posted on July 29th, 2009
My review of this book appeared originally in another publication and is reprinted here:
Brooklyn Follies
By Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Company, $24.00, 304 pages
ISBN 0-8050-7714-6
Meet Nathan Glass. He is eager to tell you all about himself. But to hear Nathan tell it, he is—at least at the outset of this superbly comic novel—a cynical fifty-nine year old man who has returned to Brooklyn for only one reason: He is quietly waiting to drop dead.
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