The Lackadaisical Charm in David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Garry Wills’ Nixon Agonistes
A look at how the widely disparate politics of the late 1960s allowed “the least ‘authentic’ man alive” to be elected president.
Deep, Deep Books: Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt
Lasting influences from one of the most forgotten novelists of the last century.
Deep, Deep Books: Frederich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
All Nietzsche books come in black.
Deep, Deep Books: Louis Ferdinand Céline’s Death on the Installment Plan
Céline wrote with a relentless cynicism that hardly vindicated itself with any adjacent human warmth.
Deep, Deep Books: Norman Mailer’s Of a Fire on the Moon
Writing from the perspective of his ego, Mailer found the Moon landing “cold” and “sexless,” reducing all of the heroics of the endeavor and lessening one of humanity’s longest sources of wonder.
Deep, Deep Books: Norman O. Brown’s Life Against Death
Chapter VIII is entitled “Death, Time, and Eternity”. That’s out there, man.
Donald Lipscomb’s Into this Straight World
An imagined novel receives an imagined review