Their Days Are Numbered is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online novel written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis.…
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Pies and Tarts for Dinner and Dessert by Stéphane Reynaud Melville House, November 2014 192 pages – Melville House / Amazon Everyone who knows me knows this: I am a pie…
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With increasing frequency, whenever we encounter the term “plot” in literary criticism, we’re told to treat it as an unfashionable hat. In her recent New Yorker essay, “An Answer to…
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The ooze was loose! And we wanted to swim in it. Whether it was Nickelodeon slime, Monster Blood, or that troublingly viscous concoction Tom Rodak made during lunch by mashing…
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I want to read something fun. I want to read something nigh-incomprehensible. Or something surreal and sickly sardonic. Something Gutter Operatic. I want to read every book I…
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Consider them second homes. Or read this as a transcontinental road map — with destinations that have all been given a hearty thumbs-up by us here at Entropy. Whether you need a novel to…
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Over at Everyday Genius hot tamale Michael Seidlinger has been flashing us with some works-in-progress by a variety of writers, which made me think about the genre “Works-In-Progress” in general,…
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It’s always intriguing when reading a translated book to imagine what the original language looks and sounds like. How did we get from here to there, from—in this instance—early twentieth-century…
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Welcome to a world that’s a bit bleaker even than our own, where desolation is the daily bread and death more common than kindness. By my rough guesstimate, in total…
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Although the books I’m forever meaning to read are piled high already — these towers of tomes that will one day most likely crush me — there are still more books I’m gearing up…
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For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 256 pages / Amazon / Goodreads For Today I Am a Boy, the debut novel by…
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The TV Sutras by Dodie Bellamy Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014 240 pages / UDP / Amazon Look into the living room overcrowded with stuff and see her seated there,…
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Made To Break by D. Foy Two Dollar Radio, March 2014 202 pages / Amazon / Two Dollar Radio / Goodreads It could be the start of a horror…
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Sometimes students ask me, “Why must every book be so sad?” Tell us, why does 87% of literature view the human condition an unpleasant, mordant, smelly thing? Really, isn’t this…
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