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What I Am Reading: "Perdido Street Station" by China Miéville

A famously urbanist work of weird fiction (and the first book in a fantasy trilogy).

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WritingTyler WolaninApril 14, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Third Reich" by Roberto Bolaño

A book about the tabletop wargame, not about the regime.

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WritingTyler WolaninApril 11, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Bug Jack Barron" by Norman Spinrad

A New Wave science fiction novel about television and immortality.

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WritingTyler WolaninApril 9, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt’s middle novel, about art history.

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WritingTyler WolaninApril 7, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "A Very British Coup" by Chris Mullin

The premier British politics novel; a review slightly less timely than it would have been before Corbyn was obliterated, but there you go.

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WritingTyler WolaninMarch 31, 2020Books, PoliticsComment
What I Am Reading: "The British General Election of 2001" by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh

Part of a series of academic studies about every post-war British General Election

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WritingTyler WolaninMarch 29, 2020Books, Politics, ElectionsComment
What I Am Reading: "Eminent Victorians" by Lytton Strachey

A pop biography that does not live up to its condemnatory potential.

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WritingTyler WolaninMarch 25, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Dream of the Celt" by Mario Vargas Llosa

A South American take on an Irish patriot and human rights activist.

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WritingTyler WolaninMarch 22, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright" by Steven Millhauser

A “biography” of a very young novelist.

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WritingTyler WolaninMarch 17, 2020Books Comment
What I Am Reading: "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop." by Robert Coover

A book about a baseball tabletop RPG.

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WritingTyler WolaninMarch 12, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "If on a winter's night a traveler" by Italo Calvino

What kind of person would make you start ten different books, but not let you finish any?

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WritingTyler WolaninMarch 10, 2020Books Comments
What I Am Reading: "The Hundred Brothers" by Donald Antrim

A postmodern novel about a hundred brothers and their dismal family gathering (in a decrepit mansion library, of course).

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WritingTyler WolaninMarch 7, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Weimar Prussia 1925-1933: The Illusion of Strength" by Dietrich Orlow

The Preußenschlag and what came before (or: Otto Braun or the Autobahn.”)

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WritingTyler WolaninMarch 4, 2020Books, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
What I Am Reading: "Weimar Prussia 1918-1925: The Unlikely Rock of Democracy" by Dietrich Orlow

The glory days of the Weimar Republic, thanks to one state government.

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WritingTyler WolaninFebruary 26, 2020Books, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
What I Am Reading: "Hidden Cities: A Memoir of Urban Exploration" by Moses Gates

The last holdout of the urban exploration books.

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WritingTyler WolaninFebruary 22, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Last Days of New Paris" by China Miéville

Some weird fiction about Surrealism and the French Resistance.

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WritingTyler WolaninFebruary 17, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

A slightly metatextual thriller for English majors.

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WritingTyler WolaninFebruary 13, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "A Sundial in a Grave: 1610" by Mary Gentle

A swashbuckling adventure in the early 17th century.

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WritingTyler WolaninFebruary 9, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Neighborhood" by Mario Vargas Llosa

A novel by a defeated candidate about life under his opponent.

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WritingTyler WolaninFebruary 2, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography" by Chester Brown

Comix about a Canadian rebel.

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WritingTyler WolaninJanuary 31, 2020Comics Comments
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