Quite possibly the most brazenly insubordinate and thought-provoking book I have read since Walter Benjamin’s landmark essay “The Work of Art In the Age Of Mechanical Reproduction” is David Shields’s highly hyped “manifesto,” Reality Hunger. (Inverted sentence structure intended, BTW.)
I don’t know if I am yet prepared to follow Shields into the novels-are-not-really-novels wilderness, but [...]
Not the “best,” necessarily, but these are the novels, I think, which will cast the longest shadows to the writers of the future.
2000
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
2001
Tie: Ian McEwan, Atonement; Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
2002
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
2003
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (now that we know it’s a novel)
2004
David [...]
A review of Denis Johnson’s new, 25-years-in-the-writing novel, Tree of Smoke, is in the October 2007 edition of The Believer.
A review of Matt Sharpe’s new novel, JAMESTOWN, was published in the August 2007 edition of The Believer.
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