All right, well one should read a whole book before one opens one's big fat mouth.So yes, in my preliminary review I said the book's developments were too outlandish for credulity. Let's just say without giving up a HUGE spoiler that there is reason for this: it all has a grand purpose, a grand d...
I liked the first three quarters of this book a lot. It was kind of like a punk/new wave Candide set in early 80s New York. It also reminded me a lot of Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer, which I enjoyed. The narrator, for whom the novel is clearly named, makes a series of bad decisions which in...
Praise for The Swing Voter of Staten Island:FROM KIRKUS REVIEWS:Having first dazzled Weird-Lit ultra-hipsters with The Fuck-Up in 1997, Nersesian (Unlubricated, 2004, etc.) rounds out a busy decade with a dystopian epic. Combining sci-fi space/time-warping, Unabomber-style political ranting ...
They were the only distraction as he walked, the only place to hide from everything around him. He remembered Paul building a large empty space like the one before him. It was a dance hall. And if people were coming for romantic evenings, Paul thought, they should have a cocktail bar. “Go the who...
In fact he survived nearly a month after that lethal storm surge. He’d been in bad shape when he retired, because of injuries he’d suffered on the job, and since he was too damn bull-headed to get proper treatment, let alone physical therapy, I’m sure his health had declined further over the year...
I grabbed a pen and pad as I stepped out of my car. “Hi, I’m Sandra Bloomgarten, the reporter.” “Oh cheesewhiz! Not Cass-andra Bloomgarten, the gossip columnist!” “Well I never had a column—” “Reading celebrity rags is one of the few joys I got left.” She led me into her house and pulled an old t...