With Lawrence Block and his funny punny titles, you know what to expect, and he usually delivers. This time the sleepless spy Tanner is off to the jungles of Southeast Asia for a ripping adventure.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Slowness
Milan Kundera's short novel was published some 30 years ago but is remarkably prescient in its critique of speed, which has become not just an aesthetic threat but possibly a moral one too. Unconventional with its time jumps and multiple points of view, Slowness is in fact a very conservative and traditional appeal to stop rushing around to no purpose.
Mile Marker Zero
William McKeen delivers an entertaining survey of artists and other weird characters in Key West, focusing on the 1970s. Hunter Thompson, Jimmy Buffett, Thomas McGuane, and lesser known but no less colorful figures enliven the text.
Look at the Lights, My Love
I will read anything by Annie Ernaux that I can get my hands on, but this one feels half-assed.
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