The 'Dan Chaon' Tag Archive

Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word Dan Chaon. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

November 25th, 2009

Await Your Reply wrecked me

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 [...]

October 26th, 2009

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 [...]

June 27th, 2007

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 [...]

August 22nd, 2004

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 [...]

August 1st, 2004

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 [...]

June 16th, 2004

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, [...]