Recent Books
Nescio, Amsterdam Stories (rave!) (pan!)
Kippenberger (NY Times)
Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key:
  A New York Times Notable Book of 2010
  National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
Proust/Ruskin, On Reading

News
2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
2012 Leon Levy Biography Fellowship
2011 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize

Magazines
n+1 Film Review: The Three-Trillion-Dollar Opera
Bookforum: On Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Harper's: On W.G. Sebald and Patti Smith

What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going

"a bewitching snapshot of
modern life" —Guardian (UK)

"as sensual as it is sophisticated"
"vivid and original"
"beautiful...pretty much beyond praise"
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