recommended reading
September 13, 2011
Aleksander Hemon’s article, The Aquarium, in the June 13th edition of The New Yorker is well worth the couple of dollars it might cost for the magazine: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/13/110613fa_fact_hemon. E had read it and recommended it to me and a few days had passed. Then one afternoon she came down the stairs and saw this intense and far-away look on my face. “You’ve just read it, haven’t you?”
I’ve also just finished reading Great House by Nicole Krauss. I couldn’t get through two pages without wanting to go back and read the whole thing aloud. Novels like Great House and Summertime have me enamoured with first person.
