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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 sibli...
What Is the What
Review by Sam Adams, eMusic
Dave Eggers helps to put a human face on a tragedy that too often appears immense but remote.
Billed both as a novel and an autobiography, What Is the What was written by Dave Eggers, but its author is Valentino Achak Deng, whose journey from southern Sudan through Ethiopia and Kenya to Atlanta, Georgia is chronicled within its pages. The story begins in the 1980s, just before the first ripples of civil war reach the ...
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Review by Kate Silver, eMusic
A peek into the lives and rites of the deeply religious reveals plenty of humor and nuance.
A peek into the lives and rites of the deeply religious reveals plenty of humor and nuance. Nathan Englander's debut story collection binds ties between the fictional Orthodox enclave Royal Hills, Brooklyn, bombed-out Jerusalem and Stalinist Russia. "The Twenty-Seventh Man," loosely based on historical events, finds a young, un...
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...
Veronica
Review by Elisa Ludwig, eMusic
A masterful, meditative novel about beauty, youth and regret.
In this masterful, meditative novel, Alison, a onetime model, ruminates on her faded youth and a lost friendship. Now in her 40s and suffering from a shoulder injury and hepatitis C, Alison is eking out a living as an office cleaner. Yet her memories drift back from the bleak present to her “bright past” as a teenager, eager to escape an unhappy childhood h...
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Dirty Jokes In Shakespeare
The works of Shakespeare contain more than 700 puns on sex and more than 400 on genitals. But, sadly, most of these have been kept under wraps for centuries, depriving the world of some of the sharpest, most sophisticated and hilarious jokes in the whole of literature. Shakespeare’s sexual wordplay ranges from uproarious innuendoes to profoundly moving expressions of emotional pain. His kings, queens and aristocrats ar...
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eMusic Q&A: Matt Taibbi
You may know Matt Taibbi from his incisive, uproarious Rolling Stone columns, or perhaps from his satirical work for the New York Press (including one column entitled “The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of The Pope”). Or it could be you know Matt Taibbi because he looks a lot like that dude who joined your evangelical church group for a few months, asked a lot of questions and suddenly disappeared. Going u...
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