End of the week roundup:
This week on Bookforum.com, Andrew Hulktrans reviewed influential alt-rocker Bob Mould’s memoir of “rage and melody.”
Andrew Martin praised the “volatile mingling of sex, play, and violence” in Justin Torres’ debut novel, We the Animals, a surreal, episodic story of three Puerto Rican brothers growing up in upstate New York.
“Ruins have for several centuries been objects of literary and artistic veneration, reminders of real and imaginary catastrophe, images of historical hubris and souvenirs from dashed futures,” Brian Dillon writes in the introduction to his syllabus, an assessment of ruins in literature.
And finally, Bookforum spoke with poet Ben Lerner about his excellent first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station.
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