false 28 163 151 true 5655296 read 3 true 3633009 currently-reading 9 true 3633008 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74563459 to: Shoplifting from American Apparel (Paperback) by Tao Lin
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70015286 Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels - The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula, I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac - Imaging, the Adult Life Toulouse (Paperback) by Kathy Acker
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70014322 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Paperback) by Daniel Clowes
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69888695 to: The Necessary Marriage (Eastern European Literature) (Romanian Literature Series) by Dumitru Tsepeneag
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53314437 to: Nightwood (Paperback) by Djuna Barnes
Mesmerizing. T.S. Eliot recommends you read it more than once. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68420799 to: The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (Paperback) by Robert Pinsky
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66265139 to: Girl With Curious Hair (Hardcover) by David Foster Wallace
Barth and Barthelme and Coover are obvious influences here, but it's mostly straight up Wallace. The novella at the end of the collection is deliberately, annoyingly metafictional though. Here's a quote from the novella itself: "it goes on a bit longer than absolutely necessary, limitations of space and patience being a constant and defining limitation, these quick and distracting days." The rest of the book is superlative-worthy. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53314393 Brooks's review of Concise Oxford English Dictionary
by Angus Stevenson

Josh wrote: "I've heard the best part (the zenith, if you will) is at the end."

I hope so. It's going to take me years to get there I think. ]]>