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ce all of those layers as anti intellectual as some of them may be i m also hoping to be a bit more diligent about my freelancing now that i m totally done with school and hopefully i ll have a bunch of links to articles i ve written up on this site soon thanks for reading 1 comment eating the dinosaur by chuck klosterman november 1 2009 3 54 pm filed under reviews and final opinions tags chuck klosterman eating the dinosaur chuck klosterman is responsible for validating my debilitating pop culture habit after reading sex drugs and cocoa puffs i started to see entertainment journalism as a viable career option for better or worse his essays are droll and chock a block full of curious interpretations of everyday objects and cultural phenomena he s amusing even when he s criticizing something that i unhip lady that i am enjoy and he s insightful but not intimidatingly so all of his books are conversational sprinkled with slang and mild profanity addressing issues that are accessible to the phd less klosterman i think embodies a different kind of intellectualism a more relatable kind armchair intellectualism his essays impose a deeply philosophical scholarly and often historical context upon banalities sans irony we aren t meant to laugh at an elaborate analysis of abba we re meant to laugh at how legitimate that analysis is the it s funny cause it s true paradigm since the release of his definitive work sex drugs and cocoa puffs in 2003 klosterman has become a bit of a celebrity ostensibly a part of all that pop culture debris he s so apt to critique in eating the dinosaur his latest collection he overtly addresses that issue in the book s opening essay something instead of nothing which is essentially meditation on the art and practice of interviewing and being interviewed in the essay klosterman who has contributed to spin the washington post and esquire writes for the past five years i ve spent more time being interviewed than conducting interviews with other people i am not complaining about this nor am i proud of it it s just the way things worked out mostly by chance but the experience has been confusing eating the dinosaur feels like klosterman s attempt to replicate the content style and success of sex drugs and cocoa puffs but this isn t something that he s able to do i m not criticizing him i m just saying that his psychic distance has changed he very literally cannot write the same way that he wrote back in 2003 for all of the reasons that none of us can write or think or behave the way we did in 2003 but also because he is whether he wants to admit it or not a celebrity so while reading this book there s this mildly uncomfortable tension sort of haunting the margins despite my love for pop culture reportage i almost would have preferred to read something completely devoted to his transformation into a public figure although there were a few things that weren t working for me in eating the dinosaur the discussion of sports the rehashing of issues discussed in previous work how meta the whole thing is i did enjoy the book overall and would recommend it especially to people who haven t read klosterman there is an articulate satisfyingly geeky dissection of time travel called tomorrow never knows that should go down in history as the authoritative text on the subject when klosterman is good he s really good 1 comment booking through thursday october 29 2009 2 05 pm filed under booking through thursday tags booking through thursday pride and prejudice romeo and juliet twilight wuthering heights what words phrases in a blurb make a book irresistible i d consider any book touted as surreal and hilarious a godsend lately though i ve been finding that any time the back cover blurb mentions that a book is in any way comical i end up feeling gypped we all have a different understanding of what funny is i realize that and even when a book is said to be hilarious or hysterical i m not so naïve or easily deceived by marketing gimmicks to believe that i ll be busting a gut as i flip through its pages but if the book fails to make me crack a smile or even think ah yes now that sentence was rather humorous as i adjust my monocle then i d say that that back cover blurb failed to deliver on its promise what i usually find most useful in selecting books are those little author endorsement quotes if another writer that i like has said that he she enjoyed the book then i ll probably buy it i know that writers share publishers and publishers ask more established successful writers to provide these sorts of quotes for up and comers but i doubt anyone would ever cosign something that was horrible the thing that i find slightly baffling these days is the use of twilight to market classics something that i ve brought up before 3 comments the corrections eating the dinosaur october 29 2009 4 36 am filed under chuck klosterman jonathan franzen the noobs tags chuck klosterman eating the dinosaur iv jonathan franzen sex drugs and cocoa puffs the corrections val kilmer both of these books were purchased in las vegas during my vacation which just goes to show that i am at my core a book buying fool the chuck klosterman book was something that i d been looking forward to for a while sex drugs and cocoa puffs is one of my favorite books and chuck klosterman iv has the most incredible interview with val kilmer in it kilmer is out of his mind i ve already started reading eating the dinosaur and so far it hasn t blown my mind of course there are some interesting essays right now my favorite is one in which klosterman dissects the concept of time travel but the book just feels a little too meta this may be a byproduct of chuck klosterman s increased notoriety he s a pop culture critic and with his success has essentially become a piece of pop culture i think he loves this but it also seems that it s something that makes him uncomfortable i bought the corrections by jonathan franzen because it s just one of those books that you re supposed to read and i often find myself eyeing it at bookstores it only cost 3 99 at borders on the bargain rack and i just couldn t pass that up 3 99 is less than what i pay for stuff at the used book store leave a comment the accidental tourist by anne tyler october 27 2009 7 36 am filed under anne tyler reviews and final opinions the accidental tourist tags anne tyler nick hornby the accidental tourist as i ve mentioned before i purchased the accidental tourist because nick hornby said that anne tyler was the author who made him want to write and because nick hornby s work has had a similar impact on me i thought it crucial to read something she d written at the risk of sounding completely ignorant and in the interest of full disclosure i will admit to not knowing who tyler was before hornby brought her up at his book signing this is especially embarrassing when you consider that she s a pulitzer prize winner she s been nominated 3 times but you know you live you learn you read the accidental tourist that s the circle of life and it moves us all through despair and hope through faith and love etc last week i plucked the accidental tourist out from my stack o books because i thought it would be fitting i m in las vegas at the moment but i had no idea how fitting it would actually turn out to be macon leary the novel s protagonist is an anal retentive travel guide writer his books are all about low impact travelling showing business types how to go on their business trips without having to engage with the cities they re visiting as it turned out i spent the second day of this vacation in the hotel never leaving not even for food i had a couple of lunchables in the refrigerator for some poorly thought out reason i decided to tag along with my mother and grandmother on this vegas trip they came for an aarp convention being twenty five years old i do not meet the primary admission requirement for the american association of retired persons so i couldn t go to any of their little events not that i would have wanted to anyway and because we re staying at an isolated resort miles and miles away from the strip i ve been alternating between hotel confinement and doing granny things like eating at all you can eat buffets and sitting for hours at 1 slot machines though the days here have been lame for sure the up side is that i was able to finish the book without any distractions and i m glad that i read it tyler s prose is unadorned but poignant proof that plain language can be emotionally affecting and win pulitzer prizes there was a time when i thought that good writing was heavily poetic sprinkled with bizarre metaphors and full of big eruditey words so in that way there s something refreshing about the book i ve been waiting for a while to feel some investment to actually care about a novel s characters and this is the first book that i ve finished this past month that s accomplished that macon begins an odd sort of relationship with this flighty inarticulate dog trainer named muriel a character who was able to crawl so thoroughly under my skin that i really have to applaud tyler s skill the accidental tourist is about life or i guess what it means to really live as hackneyed as that sounds and when a novel s protagonist is a reserved man who cuts himself off from the outside world you sort of expect him to find his redemption in some quirky woman with frizzy hair but tyler is able to create this very complicated and realistic internal life for macon there isn t anything easy about his journey if i d read this book ten years ago i don t think that i would have said a ha now i know what i ll do with my life i ll become a writer but i can definitely see myself reading more of tyler s work leave a comment adam goldberg october 23 2009 4 27 am filed under movies and books tags adam goldberg celebrity playlist podcast itunes saw this picture when i opened itunes today i already love adam goldberg if you haven t seen 2 days in paris you should probably get on that but there s something about all of those books stacked up behind him that s really working for me i think i might just love him a little bit more now here s his playlist 1 comment booking through thursday october 22 2009 4 42 pm filed under booking through thursday tags 42 booking through thursday douglas adams life the universe and everything meme nick hornby if you could ask your favorite author alive or dead one question who would you ask and what would that question be you d think that you d be able to come up with an answer to this question immediately but that just isn t the case is it i ve had the opportunity to attend several book readings where authors i adore were standing only a few feet away from me and each time my brain seemed to stop functioning a couple of weeks ago i was standing beside nick hornby and just couldn t remember how to construct sentences he actually had to ask me if i wanted to take a picture with him c mon amber he said i m not here that often so this question presupposes that when face to face with my favorite author i d be able to speak which is unlikely but i ll just try and go with it i think i d ask douglas adams to write a sentence for me a sentence written by the man who said that the meaning of life the universe and everything is 42 is bound to be both poignant pithy peculiar and priceless 1 comment the dead father by donald barthelme october 21 2009 1 40 pm filed under reviews and final opinions tags donald barthelme the dead father the dead father is dead i killed it i don t know how i did it but i did it s done i read barthelme and won unintentional rhyme in the dead father the most complicated book that i ve read in the past two months quite possibly the most complicated that i ve read since becoming literate a group of people drag the immense somewhat dead somewhat living body of a man known as the dead father across the countryside d f is a pitiful figure despite his apparent size i don t think any concrete measurements are ever given but we re led to believe he s rather huge though not too huge and is often berated by members of his travelling party why are they doing this you ask well it s all very mystical and at the same time not mystical at all confusing yup and then you get paragraphs that start like this the dead father was slaying in a grove of music and musicians first he slew a harpist and then a performer upon the serpent and also a banger upon the rattle and also a blower of the persian trumpet and one upon the indian trumpet and one upon the hebrew trumpet and one upon the roman trumpet and one upon the chinese trumpet of copper covered wood i should have hated this book but i didn t though the narrative is untraditional to say the least it s digressive surreal and confusing confusing confusing i loved the dead father and was actually moved by it i think in order to read and enjoy it you have to be open to what barthelme s done and try to look at the book as an experience an experience that s going to be pretty rough and uncomfortable for a while leave a comment heroes and villains the dead father and another thing angle of yaw october 19 2009 5 59 am filed under the noobs tags and another thing angle of yaw ben lerner david hajdu donald barthelme eoin colfer heroes and villains the dead father the noobs this is probably the most diverse group of books that i ve ever purchased in the space of a week angle of yaw by ben lerner is a book of prose poems nominated for the national book award a couple of years back and another thing by eoin colfer is sci fi humor heroes and villains by david hajdu is a collection of pop culture essays and the dead father by donald barthelme is surrealist fiction of the highest order i ve already started the barthelme and i m struggling i chose to read it first because i thought i would move through it quickly since it s less than 200 pages but it s so off the wall and different from anything that i ve ever read including the one short story of barthelme s that i read for class two years ago that it takes me forever to finish a single page in housekeeping vs the dirt nick hornby says that if a book is no fun then you should abandon it and find something better the strange thing about the dead father is that it s an incredibly difficult read but for some reason i really enjoy it the book is sort of cool and has phrases in it like he took out his ancient prick i d like to finish up with it though because i m eager to dive into lerner s prose poems he did a reading at my school and just blew me away with how intelligent he was his prose poems are funny insightful and periodically about old school video games i suppose i could try to read both books at the same time but that would probably just make the going even slower leave a comment older posts create a free website or blog at wordpress com yup i read now blog at wordpress com subscribe 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