Alberto Manguel’s Odd Bolano Pan
Tattoo: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery Reviewed @ TQC
Published Off the Record
Kamikaze Attacks on the Status Quo
Nice Moves
New Review @ TQC
About a Mountain by John D’Agata
Wonder by Hugo Claus
Alex Ross’s New Book
The Friday Column is on vacation this week. In the meantime, print out some of these articles for weekend reading.
New fiction by Jonathan Lethem in The New Yorker.
Scott McLemee on the recently deceased Jean Baudrillard.
The Virginia Quarterly review on literary quarterlies.
Andrew Delbanco on the shrinking number of poor people in America’s institutes of higher education.
William Alexander on Scott McCloud’s influence on comics.
M.S. Smith on his 20 favorite films.
Lenora Todaro of Bookforum on Tom McCarthy’s new novel Remainder.
Weekend Reading
BookSlut interviewed science fiction author Justine Larbalestier last month.
Voyages Of Imagination is a cool site that tracks new Star Trek books. I really enjoyed the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels (and honestly the Voyager ones weren…