by Chris East on January 28, 2012
If you had told me three years ago that I would have gotten this blog to 500 posts, I don’t think I would have believed you. But here we are: five hundred posts of wordy review-y media junkie pop culture goodness, awwww yeah! As it turns out, not giving a shit about whether people give [...]
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How the Dead Dream,
Ian McDonald,
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Inception,
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Jennifer Egan,
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Terriers,
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by Chris East on January 23, 2012
I’ve heard Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) described as a short story collection disguised as a novel, but I absolutely disagree. While it does possess a unique mosaic structure – each chapter a self-contained story with a different viewpoint – there is a single, coherent throughline to the book, entirely thematic, [...]
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Jennifer Egan