While I was on vacation in visiting my in-laws in England, I didn’t get as much read I typically do. A mere eight books read in September. 119. The Invisibles, Vol. 4: Bloody Hell in America, by Grant Morrison (Vertigo, 1998) Making my way through them. 120. Mad Hope, by Heather Birrell (Coach House Books, 2012) This […]
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A varied month. 50. Twenty-Seventh City, by Jonathan Franzen (Picador , 1988, 2001) To backtrack, I really liked The Corrections, and thought The Discomfort Zone was pretty good, but I felt like I kept waiting for Twenty-Seventh City to make sense. At its most bare, it’s the story of a conspiracy by a group of people to destroy
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Go the Fuck to Sleep, written by Adam Mansbach, began life as a random comment on Facebook. Friends encouraged Mansbach to write it, and he began with a few verses. The illustrations were completed by a friend, Ricardo Cortes, and they found a publisher, Akashic Books, and it shortly went viral, reaching number 1 on Amazon.com a
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