9 Comments

1. July 8th, 2011 / 12:44 am Ken Baumann—

   LOL

2. July 8th, 2011 / 12:44 am Ken Baumann—

   LOL

3. July 8th, 2011 / 2:25 pm bobby—

   Reading the end of that first paragraph I said out loud, “ohhhhhhhhh.”

4. July 8th, 2011 / 3:49 pm Guestagain—

   very funny, DeLillo in November, something to look forward to

5. July 8th, 2011 / 5:02 pm dole—

   “rapture-like event known as The Sudden Departure, which has caused millions of people the world over to suddenly and mysteriously disappear. The science-fiction premise ” is not a science-fiction premise.

6. July 8th, 2011 / 5:15 pm dole—

   “centered on the staggering advance he managed to procure – an art in itself, in these days of editorial caution. Expectations will be commensurately high, but Harbach’s novel aims squarely at what’s left of the American mainstream – baseball and college – and, at 500 pages, is clearly swinging for the fences.”

   oh man can’t wait can’t WAIT

7. July 8th, 2011 / 10:43 pm Carolyn DeCarlo—

   yippee.

8. July 11th, 2011 / 4:55 pm Ned Vizzini—

   Great list. Books I will buy or at least consider buying:

   The Magician King by Lev Grossman
   Blue Nights by Joan Didion
   The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
   House of Holes: A Book of Raunch by Nicholson Baker
   Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre
   Zone One by Colson Whitehead
   Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge

9. July 13th, 2011 / 4:20 pm barry—

   really looking forward to reading bonnie jo campbell’s once upon a river. also russell banks, donald ray pollock, and murakami