Tue, May 22, 2012

The Language of Childhood: The TFT Review of Justin Torres’ We the Animals

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago

Justin Torres’ slim, beautiful first novel We the Animals is an incongruity. Not just because it manages to be a novel without a real plot; or that it’s a kind of “ghetto porn,” but without the ghetto and not particularly salacious; but that it succeeds at that rarest of things –…

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Avant Slackerism at Its Best: The TFT Review of Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago

Lerner’s novelis a minor masterpiece of the Age of Internet, of Terrorism, of the Internet as (a bullshit metaphor for) Terrorism. Relevant search terms for its style include: Joyce’s “Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man,” Rilke’s “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge,” and Sebald’s…

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Life Overflows With Life: The TFT Review of Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago

If you want to read a really good essay about Denis Johnson and his new novella, Train Dreams, you should read James Wood’s New Yorker review (“Cabin Fever”, 9/5/11). It quotes all the exemplary and quotable stuff and basically gets everything right. It opens with a short discussion of…

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