I can hear the breathlessness of anticipation, darlings! The Friday after Thanksgiving is commonly called "Black Friday." For those of us with a literary bent, I dub tomorrow "Black Thursday," because, finally the new Jennifer Egan hits the stores. I am just about to begin "Chronic City," by Jonathan Lethem, so though I plan to pick my copy up tomorrow, it will be some time, before I get to it.
The news media should cover all the mad literati, hanging out bookstores at midnight, to get what they feel is the first copy. I won't be there, but I support all who are.
Being it is October already, I still have not read something that automatically qualifies to me as a Book Of The Year, when it comes to Fiction!
Will Jennifer's be the one? Stay tuned to find out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even if I lived in New York, I would not be in that line.
ReplyDeleteBut I would Want to be, does that count?
I would WANT to want to be, anyway.
Chronic City was an interesting novel. Very much of its time, tho: I'm not quite sure how it will date in a few years, or even now. It pretty much hinges on the peak of Bloomberg's reign, so if you don't have a vivid memory of 2007 NYC it may not resonate as well. I've often wondered how anyone not from New York would get anything from it.
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ReplyDeleteAm about a quarter of the way through.
Devoid of any wit or humor. Very cut
and dried writing. Not sure how I will
feel till I finish.
ReplyDeleteVictoria,
Thirty years ago, maybe I could do it.
But not now!