Liz Phair rocks a book review
Liz Phair reviews Dean Wareham’s memoir in the New York Times this weekend. Flash back to 1994 and tell me that the Exile in Guyville girl would be writing a…
Category Archives: NYTBR
Dear NYTBR: Grammar, please
From “one” to “us” in two sentences. Just when one had started mourning the demise of avant-garde and postmodern fiction, buried under the avalanche of historical novels, chick lit and…
Litblogs vs. book reviews, wrongheaded again
Wow, I do love that the New York Times is thinking about liblogs, but why they set them up in opposition to books reviews is baffling. Newspaper book review sections…
Who’s your pharmacist?
I’m hesitatant to read all these Pynchon reviews that are hitting the streets, because I’ve just barely begun reading Against the Day, but I couldn’t resist taking a look at…
How not to write a lead
This review of the new book/diary from Courtney Love is in this Sunday’s NYTBR . It begins: There was a moment — let’s say 1989, since that’s when I discovered…
NYT and me
Sunday’s New York Times Book Review will include their list of 100 notable books from 2005. Fiction books (excluding poetry): 34I have read: 1I have in my to-be-read bookshelf: 1Authors…
Notes on the NYTBR
The cover review, entitled Hero and Heroin, was not, as LA-centric me thought, about Jerry Stahl’s I Fatty. In fact, it’s a balanced review of Brett Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park….
NYTBR: Shappell rocks
Once again the NY Times is packed full of nonfiction reviews, which I’ve decided to skim, leaving a bare whisper of fiction to check out after removing their take on…
NYTBR: the Pollack version
One-time Pinky guest Neal Pollack has the back page of the NY Times Book Review today, where he tries to do away with his half-alter ego Neal Pollack once and…
