The Verifiers, Jane Pek

I spied this book on a display at J. Michaels Books in Eugene, Oregon, and this is the thing about a really excellent indie bookstore: their overall stock was so well curated, and the displays so thoughtfully put together, that I wanted to buy everything, because I knew that humans with excellent taste had consciouslyContinueContinue reading “The Verifiers, Jane Pek”

Weird Fucks, Lynne Tillman

Sex is fascinating. I love reading about it, and thinking about it, and I am especially fascinated by the way it is both extremely private and individualistic and also inevitably attached to a larger world of cultural and political norms and beliefs.* And this delightful little erotic picaresque is a wonderful example of exactly that.ContinueContinue reading “Weird Fucks, Lynne Tillman”