We appear to be the happy operators of a menagerie! At a reading in Chicago on Tuesday, January 8th, an elderly gentleman concluded the night’s comments by saying that he had never heard of George Saunders until a few days earlier, but the New York Times’ review*’s claim was too substantial to deny. So, he […]
Bulletpoint’d review of Aleksandar Hemon’s new book, The Book of My Lives, now commencing: —Most of the stories in this book have been previously published in other outlets (the New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney’s, etc.) over the past few years. But that doesn’t actually make this book this book any less cohesive. In fact, excepting a few […]
Frothy and substantial as a soda fountain treat itself, the Paris Review‘s Sadie Stein gets rapturously sentimental for Anne Emery’s malt shop books. The ultimate slash: Star Trek meets a Softer World. For an independent alternative to the Amazon, IndieBound offers an affiliate program. Link to books you want, IndieBound pays referral fees, and independent booksellers […]
There are forces working for and against Kathryn Bigelow’s newest film, Zero Dark Thirty. For: The built-in emotional gravity that comes with a story surrounding the events of September 11th; Bigelow’s past success in a familiar Middle Eastern locale (a literal sandbox for her, to use a cheeky metaphor); her execution of the ideal action-thriller […]
The Anobium staff is proud to present what 2012 meant to us in terms of music, film, and literature. BENJAMIN VAN LOON Top 5 Albums 1. Gaza: No Absolutes in Human Suffering [2012] – A soundtrack for universal entropy. Heavy and dark as the Caspian Sea. 2. Old Man Gloom: No [2012] – I waited something like 10 […]
