Posts Tagged: Ethan Canin


21
Dec 08

The 10 Best Books I read in 2008

1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken:This was the best book I read all year. No hemming, no hawing, no second guessing — the best. McCracken’s memoir about giving birth to a stillborn child and all that follows is heartbreaking, darkly funny, and something everyone on the planet should [...]


29
Nov 08

The Gargoyle makes me sound like a stoner

Andrew Davidson’s debut novel The Gargoyle, is the kind of book that gives me nextbookaphobia.
This is a condition marked by great fear of starting a new book because there is no way that it can possibly live up to the last book you read, because that last book was really fucking good. I’ve experienced this [...]


11
Aug 08

Ethan Canin on the Bat Segundo Show

In the Bat Segundo Show #228, Ethan Canin explains his reason behind being coy regarding some aspects of America America


1
Aug 08

A few more things about the Ethan Canin Reading

you can see where he screwed up because I made him nervous
I’m having a hard time writing about the Ethan Canin reading from Wednesday night at Magers & Quinn. The combination of nerves and having my mind blown has turned my memory to Swiss cheese.
I do remember standing in line with Jags, Peabo, Dale, [...]


30
Jul 08

Two things I can tell you about the Ethan Canin reading

1. Ethan Canin told me I was making him nervous. I wasn’t even doing anything creepy. All I did was introduce myself and told him that the e-mail he sent me about my post on America, America made my summer. “Now I’m nervous,” he said. He was so nervous, in fact, that he misspelled a [...]


30
Jul 08

Ethan Canin reading tonight at Magers & Quinn

If y’all aren’t busy, you should go listen to Ethan Canin read at Magers & Quinn tonight. It’s not often that we get to be in the presence of greatness.


7
Jul 08

America America the beautiful and brilliant

It’s hard to write about Ethan Canin’s new novel America America without staring into space and sighing dreamily. I’m going to put it out there. If this doesn’t turn out to be my favorite novel of 2008 I am going to shocked. Shocked and amazed. This book is so good that I have trouble finding [...]


1
Jul 08

A problem getting things done

I came upstairs over an hour ago to take a shower so I could go to the grocery store and get something to eat. Instead, here it is nearly 1 p.m. and I’m stinky and hungry. It’s all Ethan Canin’s fault. I’ve been reading his new novel America America this week and it’s getting to [...]


22
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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