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Boredom as Religious Experience: David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
Reviewing The Pale King is a difficult process, for a number of reasons. The most obvious of which include that it is a last novel (though we wish it weren’t) whose author isn’t alive to see its...
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The Brunist Day of Wrath by Robert Coover
Forty-seven years ago this month, a NY Times review of The Origin of the Brunists opened with “Robert Coover writes his first novel as if he doesn’t expect to make it to a second.”In that novel, a mine...
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Proxies by Brian Blanchfield
I read Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies: Essays Near Knowing on flights to and from a canyoneering trip in Moab. On the last full day of the trip, we found petroglyphs—cupreous handprints, pressed palm to...
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