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proximoceptionSome other books read this summer:
The Plot Against America: Historical what-if book, an odd lark for Roth, though he turns it into another beautiful love letter to his family and town. Allegedly not directed at the present misusers of state power, but it made me more and more furious at them and their past cognates. A strong creation and experience, worthy of '90s Roth.
American Pastoral: The one I burnt out on last year (after a happy dash through almost all his other books), and found heavy going this summer as well. A shame as clearly it's one of the great American novels, as its proud title knows. You just come to know an author's voice and obsessions too well after a point, I guess. Gotta space things out. Also: don't read when hungover. That's killed a few masterpieces for me.
Anne Carson's poems: I read and loved them all, especially the loose trilogy of "The Glass Essay" and the book-length poems Autobiography of Red and The Beauty of the Husband. Glass Irony & God might be her strongest collection.
Child of God: My first taste of Cormac McCarthy's world. This man can write.
The Plot Against America: Historical what-if book, an odd lark for Roth, though he turns it into another beautiful love letter to his family and town. Allegedly not directed at the present misusers of state power, but it made me more and more furious at them and their past cognates. A strong creation and experience, worthy of '90s Roth.
American Pastoral: The one I burnt out on last year (after a happy dash through almost all his other books), and found heavy going this summer as well. A shame as clearly it's one of the great American novels, as its proud title knows. You just come to know an author's voice and obsessions too well after a point, I guess. Gotta space things out. Also: don't read when hungover. That's killed a few masterpieces for me.
Anne Carson's poems: I read and loved them all, especially the loose trilogy of "The Glass Essay" and the book-length poems Autobiography of Red and The Beauty of the Husband. Glass Irony & God might be her strongest collection.
Child of God: My first taste of Cormac McCarthy's world. This man can write.
