Alan DeNiro: Leaving aside the quality of American Vertigo itself, having Garrison Keillor review Bernard-Henri Levy is like having a complete tool review a French philosopher. –
Thomas Pynchon: Spanning the period between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the
years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles
in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen,
Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of
the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar
Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly
speaking on the map at all.
LitBlog Coop: The character is witheringly snobbish, but he?s a funny and perceptive snob.
Bookdwarf: I still can’t believe I spent two hours with the man who should have been president.
LAist: Her only rquest on her birthday was that we go see the Flaming Lips at
the Bowl and steal a bottle of wine from someone in the box seats.
