/ dec 2009

1. 12.20.2009 | 4:23 AM UTC

   Best of the Decade: Books Ok, so this is not a list of the best books published in the past decade… simply those I happened to read and enjoy most between 2000-2009. Not too many big surprises here for many of you, but ...

/ nov 2009

1. 11.27.2009 | 4:23 UTC

   Delicious Demon: American Psycho Every time I walked past American Psycho in a book store, I was mesmerized by the cover: a vaguely victorian photograph of a sinister, steely-eyed yuppie. I knew it was a grisly book about a psycho se...

2. 11.21.2009 | 4:23 AM UTC

   Why Don’t You Finish What You Start! As a fairly dutiful reader, I tend to follow one rule: Give the book a 50-page chance at grabbing your attention. If it does, commit. Finish the damn thing, even if the deciding early pages prove to b...

3. 11.20.2009 | 4:23 AM UTC

   Not a Cheap Date: Don DeLillo’s Underworld I wasn’t all that impressed with DeLillo when I started pecking away at his ouvre with Mao II. Kinda boring, didn’t finish it. Then it was Great Jones Street, promising to feed my obsessi...

4. 11.16.2009 | 4:23 AM UTC

   A Matter of Consequence: Le Petit Prince I first read this charming little book in my native Spanish when I was about 6 years old, before I moved the States. I reread it in English a few years later, then again in French in high school. It&#...

5. 11.15.2009 | 4:23 AM UTC

   Paul Auster’s Brainy Noir
   for Lonely New Yorkers PAUL AUSTER
: New York Trilogy | Moon Palace | Hand to Mouth | Leviathan | The Music of Chance Pretty soon after we (the Royal we, you know, the editorial) had moved to New York and secured suitabl...

6. 11.14.2009 | 4:23 AM UTC

   Lepers + Priests:
   Graham Greene’s A Burnt Out Case Despite (or perhaps due to) being a long-lapsed Catholic, I’d always been curious about Graham Greene. Rumor has it those Brits sure can write. This book concerns a spiritually depleted, world-f...