AltWeeklies Wire
Gary Shteyngart Writes Another Smelly Booknew
Gary Shteyngart's 'Super Sad True Love Story' tries to be many things. But primarily, it's the finest piece of anti-iPhone propaganda ever written, a cautionary tale full of distracted drones unwilling to tear themselves away from their little glowing screens long enough to make eye contact, let alone an actual lasting connection, with another human being.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
08-04-2010 |
Fiction
Tags: Gary Shteyngart
Curious Georgenew
Haddon's hypochondriac gets under your skin.
The Village Voice |
Alexis Soloski |
08-30-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
Becq to the Futurenew
The prince of perversity's new novel is the Rael thing.
The Village Voice |
David Ng |
06-28-2006 |
Fiction
Text Booknew
Perplexed Pakistanis fill this rudeboy debut.
The Village Voice |
Gautam Hans |
06-07-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Gautam Malkani, Londonstani
From Russia With Love Handlesnew
Shteyngart's follow-up to The Russian Debutante's Handbook is less than appetizing.
The Village Voice |
Carla Blumenkranz |
05-17-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
The Magic Numbersnew
There are at least 13 ways of looking at world-weaver David Mitchell's bewitching 13-part novel.
The Village Voice |
Ed Park |
04-19-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
Mutationsnew
This is a hairy swan song from the late Tristan Egolf.
The Village Voice |
James Browning |
04-05-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Kornwolf, Tristan Egolf
Scenes From a Mallnew
An heir to Bukowski and Eileen Myles struts her stuff.
The Village Voice |
Brandon Stosuy |
02-08-2006 |
Fiction
Last Nightnew
The sequel to Brightness Falls sets the Calloways adrift in the wake of 9-11.
The Village Voice |
Benjamin Strong |
02-01-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Jay McInerney, The Good Life
Emo Expert in Hipster Playgroundnew
Greenwald's pastiche of emo tropes, dime-store Freud and corny similes adds up to the equivalent of an overly earnest late-night blog post.
The Village Voice |
Akiva Gottlieb |
01-18-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Andy Greenwald, Miss Misery
Sliding Moresnew
The historical novelist's new book deftly evokes the '60s and '70s.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-13-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Sigrid Nunez, The Last of Her Kind
She So Got a Book Dealnew
Cox, freed from the demands of the lightning-quick blogosphere, seems to have second-guess her usual wisecracks -- without the sex jokes, all that's left is stylized cynicism.
The Village Voice |
Izzy Grinspan |
01-11-2006 |
Fiction
Martone on Martonenew
Michael Martone has constructed a perpetual stutter of a novel: 45 hyper-revisionary variations on his own contributor's note, each beginning with the same sentence.
The Village Voice |
Carla Blumenkranz |
01-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Michael Martone
Amber Alertnew
This Bunuelian take on dysfunction demands that we make decisions.
The Village Voice |
Jessica Winter |
01-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Ali Smith, The Accidental
Something Happenednew
The hero of John Haskell's debut novel "was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened." His wife and car disappeared from a roadside gas station, setting him off on a wild-goose chase.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-13-2005 |
Fiction
