Brent Woo’s Reviews > More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers > Status Update

a compilation of book introductions is like a teaser reel, and one by Lethem is bad news bears for my TBR list

'one only has to measure Dickens's torrential, visceral engagement with language to know that this is as silly as speculating that Beethoven could have been tempted from music, or De Kooning from paint.'