I finished reading Dan Chaon’s Await Your Reply two weeks ago, and it wrecked me. I haven’t been able to read more than ten pages in any book since, which kind of makes sense considering Chaon’s novel is so fucking good it blew my mind.
This is the kind of novel that when I sit back [...]
Posts Tagged: Dan Chaon
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Nov 09
Await Your Reply wrecked me
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Oct 09
Book-deprived rage
Yesterday, I had a lot to say. Most of it revolved around domestic violence, breast cancer research, and the death of Sheila Wellstone. I may get around to say it sometime later, but it won’t be today.
Today, I got nothing. Why? Because saying something would require to me to stop thinking about Dan Chaon’s Await [...]
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Jun 07
A few of my favorite things: a crush list for early summer
Bananas, the fruit. I can’t get enough of them and whenever I eat them I think of the main character in The Hotel New Hampshire whose name I cannot remember who eats bananas and runs all the damn time because he wants to be a good wrestler. He does this because the grandpa tells him [...]
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Aug 04
200 pages later
instead of working on my own stories or cleaning a closet, i opted for reading. i plowed through the last 200 pages of Dan Chaon’s You Remind Me of Me. it was disappointing. a story of two half-brothers and their crazy mother. the book jumps back and forth through time, never allowing you to really [...]
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Aug 04
this is the last day of my vacation
since this is the last day of my current vacation i’ve been spending it exactly the way i want. thus far it has included lounging in bed, reading Love and Hydrogen, listening to the rain outside, and intermittently napping. it’s a tough life, but somebody’s gotta lead it. now that i’m actually vertical, i’ll probably [...]
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Jun 04
hear my little heart pound
because apparently you are not the mindless masses that i had so been hoping for, i had to go out and buy myselfDavid Foster Wallace’s Oblivion. can you hear my little heart pound with excitement? but don’t worry, if you feel the need to buy me a book, i really, really, really, really, really, really, [...]
