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Wiener, a renowned Peruvian essayist, collects several pieces of her immersive "gonzo" journalism in the vein of Hunter S. Thompson and Joan Didion. She delves into subcultures, participating with swingers, sampling drug rituals and confronts her fear of death among other titilating subjects. Flat out cool, unabashed badass writing. So fun!
Poet Anna Moschovakis' debut novel, ELEANOR OR THE REJECTION OF THE PROGRESS OF LOVE, is an enthralling story (or two stories) of what it's like to be alive now. I can't think of a book I've read that captures the modern feeling of diconnect, overstimulation, information overload and the desire to authentically feel, like this novel. There's a stolen laptop, an endeavor to retrieve the laptop, a digression into communal life as well as the story of the person attempting to write this story and her relationship with a grumbling critic. Deeply moving, authentic, rich with feeling and bursting with intelligence, ELEANOR will astound you.
Though best known for his films--masterworks like Gates of Heaven and The Fog of War--Errol Morris is a hell of a writer too. The Ashtray, his third book, is a philosophical inquiry into the work of Thomas Kuhn, the famed pop academic with whom Morris takes serious issue (some of this may be personal: Kuhn once threw an ashtray at grad student Morris' head, thus sparking the title). Best about this book? It feels just as kaleidoscopic as one of Morris' documentaries, blending different modes (photographs, interviews, histories, recollections) to make its argument: in short, its process is just as important as its point. It's a worthy addition to Morris' astonishing body of work.
I'm pretty picky about short stories. Judgemental, I know. I don't want them to be so short that I see merely a brief vignette, but don't want them to be so long that I lose interest in what seems always to be the single-track plot.
These short stories are neither of those things. You can practically feel Helen DeWitt's cleverness oozing from each story. I think she's absolutely on another level. If you're looking for something that has the audacity to be funny, sharp as a knife, and unrepentantly dark all at the same time, this is the book for you.
In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.”
Quips & Quotes
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people –– the beauty within themselves.
-- Langston Hughes