Friday, March 20, 2020

Short Form: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman (2017)

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About a month ago, an old college friend rang me up, expressing concern for both of us. After the requisite conversational benchmarks we...

The Night of the Gun - David Carr (2008)

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David Carr worked until he died. It's been more than five years, and for some reason that feels totally insane ( see  his Twitter  ht...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino (2019)

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Though Flying Houses has reverted to mostly short-form reviews, there are some books that merit the long-form treatment, and one of them ...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Short Form: Conversations with Friends, Year of the Monkey, She Said

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Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney (2017) I came to Sally Rooney's work as I come to so many others' today: the NY Time...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Top 10 Movies of the Decade

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(10) Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Thirty years ago, Michael Keaton was playing Batman and effectively became a b...
Monday, December 30, 2019

The Line Becomes a River - Francisco Cantu

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The Line Becomes a River is the literary debut of Francisco Cantu, who is just slightly younger than me and has adequately proven t...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Short Form: The Apology, A Gentleman in Moscow, The Long Accomplishment

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The Apology - Eve Ensler This is a book unlike any other. Certainly, there are books with dead narrators (The Lovely Bones, which - f...