New obsession: William Gibson.

I’m reading Pattern Recognition for my Literature and Society class, and I have to say its blowing me away. To the point that I’ve bought up his first novel, Neuromancer and his most recent: Spook Country.
The largest, though not the tallest, a black man with a shaven head, is zipped like a sausage into something [...]

Chuck Klosterman’s new book is out.

You should get it. Have an excerpt, courtesy of ESPN.com’s Page Two:
October 29, 1983 (Mitch)
People often recall their childhood school bus smelling like vomit, but this is a misremembered cliché. In reality, the smell people recall is vomit cleanser. This misremembrance is the second-most interesting fact about school buses. The first-most interesting fact is [...]

Summer Reads

I recently finished David Benioff’s City of Thieves. I was introduced to Benioff’s work when I liked the Edward Norton 25th Hour, which was adapted by Benioff, from his first novel. Since then he’s moved on to write scripts for Troy, Stay and the recent Kite Runner. He also wrote the screenplay for the X-Men spinoff [...]

Running With Buffalo

This is the first novel by Michael Farrell, fellow St. Bonaventure Journalism grad, and older brother to the girlfriend of one of my best friends from college, Brendan.
Mike graduated from Bonas when Brendan and I were wee-freshmen climbing up the social ladder and trying to figure out where we were in life. (Some things don’t [...]

Reviews/Quotes of the Day

“Are you a ‘20-something girl’ who’s interested in finding out what ‘really lurks’ in the heart of your boyfriend? If so, allow me to explain and save you having to read this comic book: your boyfriend is bored of looking at the back of your head when you have sex, and prays every night that [...]

Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union

I love Michael Chabon.  Next to John Irving and Russell Banks, he’s my favorite living novelist.  I got introduced to him via the movie, Wonder Boys my freshman year of college. My then girlfriend and I went and loved it. I still find it’s a great movie to have on in the background when I’m [...]

Jonathan Lethem’s FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

This book was recommended to me by Noah Mallin in the first month that I was living in New York City. Like the numerous times I make my way into a bookstore I almost never walk out without something new to read. Though what happens, I like the book that I’ve gotten so much [...]

Recommended Reading, Part 2: Comics

To keep up the standards of yesterday (or the beginning of the week), I said I would come up with a list of comics that helped push me along as a storyteller and in accordance with that I must.
I was a Hunter S. Thompson junkie in college (frankly, who wasn’t?), and in the many post-bar/pre-dawn [...]

Recommended Reading

Thoughts and processes lean in on me like a riot press ironing out the kinks of civilization. I was so close to dosing off so gently when my phone blows up to Other Brian calling me after his interview.
I had just started embarking on some notes of the books I’ve read in the last [...]