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McSweeney's Field Recordings
Review by Maris Kreizman, eMusic
Pucker up, all you hopeless romantics. Prepare to share a big wet kiss with the folks from McSweeney's. For this second installment of Field Recordings, created exclusively for eMusic, the venerated indie book and magazine publisher has combed its archives to create a seductive story collection subtitled Sweet Nothings and Essential Slow Jams. So think of this audiobook as a literary mixtape, one that strikes the perfe...
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Review by Claire Zulkey, eMusic
The celebrated humorist travels the world in search of. . . something.
With a title inspired by a Japanese safety pamphlet, David Sedaris's new book of essays whips through time and space traveling, in no particular order, through his past and present. Readers familiar with his work will enjoy more tales of Sedaris' childhood in North Carolina. In "The Understudy," he recalls the incredulousness with which he and his ...
Straight Man
Review by Karrie Higgins, eMusic
Mischievous on the surface, serious at its heart.
Novelist Richard Russo sees comedy in everything and everyone, conjuring characters so wholly alive that they break our hearts, even as we laugh out loud. To wit: when the embattled college professor in the novel Straight Man wets himself while dozing in his office and has to climb through a hole in the ceiling to escape his colleagues, his desperation at once elicits ...
Blade Runner
Review by Sam Adams, eMusic
Philip K. Dick ponders what it means to be human.
The title of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? may have been altered to snare fans of Ridley Scott's film version, but it's the differences from the same that make Dick's novel worth revisiting. His Deckard is not a futuristic Philip Marlowe, but a working stiff in a failing marriage, a mercenary who kills androids for the money. Dick's Earth is a m...
America America
Review by Sam Adams, eMusic
The national disillusion of the 1970s. In miniature.
Ethan Canin’s fourth novel is, mercifully, less overarching than its portentous title would suggest. Recreating the national disillusion of the 1970s in miniature, Canin’s story focuses on Corey Sifter, a middle-class upstate New York boy who is catapulted into the world of politics when the town patriarch takes him under his wing. From digging holes in Liam Metarey...
Eat, Pray, Love
Review by Maris Kreizman, eMusic
Self-indulgent? Sure. But Gilbert's warm, relatable, and fun travelogue also suggests that healing oneself merely requires an open mind — no passport necessary.
When the average American woman feels down in the dumps, she might look for solace in any variety of clichéd pick-me-ups: butter pecan, white Zinfandel, Dr. Phil. Not Elizabeth Gilbert. When her world unraveled after a nasty divorce and a torturous l...
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Sure, your dog-eared Sweet Valley Highs were thrilling in middle school, but chances are they don’t seem quite as interesting now that you’re a card-carrying adult. Fortunately, young-adult fiction has come a long way in the past two decades. The best YA books today are smart without being dogmatic, literary yet entertaining, relevant to the teenage experience but not as singularly issue-driven as an After-School Speci...
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eMusic Q&A: Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem's obsession with music is no secret. References to bands, songs and the secret messages the devoted find therein permeate his novels and stories. Two years ago he scored the rock nerd's wet dream: a face-to-face interview with Bob Dylan for Rolling Stone. But apart from a handful of one-off projects, Lethem had never crossed the divide between music fan and music maker until he struck up a conversation ...
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