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Knocked Up, Rakish Behavior, More Bibliomania, and a Brief Hiatus
So today we (id est, Mrs. Biblioklept and myself) saw Knocked Up, which is pretty much the best pregnancy movie I’ve ever seen (yes, better than 9 Months, Parenthood and Father of the Bride 2 put...
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The Children’s Hospital — Chris Adrian
“The book started out a lot more like a big happy Love Boat episode, then 9/11 (and all that followed) happened and blew it in a new direction.”–Chris Adrian (McSweeney’s interview) Chris Adrian’s...
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Gob’s Grief — Chris Adrian
It’s the greatest open secret, that death will take everyone, that every person is as transient as a shadow. Embracing this knowledge…was how sane people managed their grief. In his debut novel Gob’s...
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Chris Adrian, 9/11 Lit, Thomas Pynchon, Beach Reading and More
I’m about half way through two books right now: Chris Adrian’s A Better Angel, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. Pynchon’s latest novel–I’ll talk a little bit about it in a sec–comes out in hardback...
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A Better Angel — Chris Adrian
How does one grieve? This central question runs through the nine stories that comprise Chris Adrian’s A Better Angel (available now in trade paperback from Picador). For Adrian’s protagonists, mostly...
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Time, Space, Distortion: Falling Towards A 9/11 Literature
In his essay “In the Ruins of the Future,” published in December of 2001, Don DeLillo wrote this about the 9/11 attacks: “The writer wants to understand what this day has done to us. Is it too soon?”...
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Why I Dislike Dustjackets
I’m lazy. I let other people do good reporting and then hijack their work. Here’s Dennis Johnson at MobyLives citing a recent Guardian story: What, exactly, is the point of a dustjacket, asks Peter...
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Biblioklept’s 777th Post Spectacular
Welcome to Biblioklept’s 777th Post Spectacular* *Not guaranteed to be spectacular. 777 seems like a beautiful enough number to celebrate, and because we’re terribly lazy, let’s celebrate by sharing...
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“The Warm Fuzzies”— Chris Adrian
Read Biblioklept favorite Chris Adrian’s story “The Warm Fuzzies” at The New Yorker. Excerpt– There was a time when they had been just the Carters, and not the Carter Family Band, but Molly could...
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Time, Space, Distortion: Falling Toward a 9/11 Literature
In his essay “In the Ruins of the Future,” published in December of 2001, Don DeLillo wrote this about the 9/11 attacks: “The writer wants to understand what this day has done to us. Is it too soon?”...
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Book Shelves #14, April 1, 2012
Book shelves series #14, fourteenth Sunday of 2012. This is a strange shelf: it’s the bottom shelf of the ladder book shelf I’ve been photographing over the past few weeks, and it’s probably the least...
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Books Acquired, 4.23.2012 — Or, Here’s What’s New from Picador This Month
Nice little stack from the good people at Picador—novels, reissues, first-time-in-trade-paperbacks, nonfiction . . . a nice little spread. First up is Chris Adrian’s latest novel The Great Night,...
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