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How One Becomes What One Is: 7 Memoirs of Artistic Development | Read It Forward I’ve read a lot of memoirs by writers—in fact, it’s probably one of my favorite categories of literature. First of all,...
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Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong | The Columbus Dispatch “Autobiographical” feels like the right description for Rachel Khong’s “Goodbye, Vitamin.” But because I don’t know whether her debut novel is...
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So You Want to Be a Writer? | Read It Forward Suppose there was some kind of mysterious portal into a magical realm, and you, for all your life, have wanted nothing more than to march right up to that...
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn | San Francisco Chronicle The critic James Wood begins his book “How Fiction Works” with this little dictum: “The house of fiction has...
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The Poetic Persistence of Sharon Olds | Read It Forward I have done what you wanted to do, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, I have done this thing, I and the other women this exceptional act with the...
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An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 | Fiction Advocate My first book is now available for pre-order from Fiction Advocate! It’s an examination of Roberto Bolaño’s magnum...
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The Dirt Below Us | An Excerpt from An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom | The Rumpus The Rumpus published an excerpt from my new book on Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666, along with pieces from...
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On Charles Baudelaire’s “Le Voyage” | Full Stop Full Stop excerpted my book on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666: 2666 begins with a quote—a fragment, really—from the 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire:...
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On Benno von Archimboldi | The Believer Logger If Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 is a circular novel, then the figure of Benno von Archimboldi, along with the city of Santa Teresa, resides at its elusive...
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Keeping Up with the Nabokovs | Read It Forward July 2017 marked the 40th anniversary of Vladimir Nabokov’s death in 1977. He was a multilingual master of prose who crafted some of the twentieth...
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Interview with Tobias Carroll at Vol. 1 Brooklyn From the piece, by Tobias Carroll: “It’s been a decade since Natasha Wimmer’s translation of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 was first published in the United...
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An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom is #8 on SPD Books’ Nonfiction Bestseller List! Woke up to this news this morning. Pretty cool.
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The Birth of Loud by Ian S. Port | Kirkus Reviews A rip-roaring journey through the early days of rock ’n’ roll, told through the lives of the men whose innovative guitars helped usher it into...
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Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen | Publishers Weekly Korneliussen’s captivating debut centers around five young people over the course of a party and its aftermath in Nuuk, Greenland, as they...
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10 Books Dad is Sure to Love | Read It Forward Fathers are notoriously hard to shop for, but really, who isn’t? And anyway, all dads are different: some love the conventional dad subjects—sports, war,...
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10 Gifts for Audiobook Lovers | Read It Forward There’s no wrong way to read a book—in print, on an eReader, or through audio. Audiobooks, for instance, can offer things that other forms simply can’t....
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Clever Gifts for Lifelong Learners | Read It Forward With so many how-to websites and YouTube instructionals out there, we often forget that books can still be used to teach us things—like practical,...
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10 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime | Read It Forward Here at Read It Forward, we talk a lot about new books because, well, we love books. But that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the...
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21 Books Set in a Post-Trump World | Read It Forward Whether we like it or not, this is the age of Trump. Maybe Trump’s actual presidency will last for four years (or maybe less, fingers crossed), or...
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Big Bang by David Bowman | Publishers Weekly “Where were you when you first heard President Kennedy had been shot?” asks Bowman (1957–2012) in the opening of his big, bold, and brilliant posthumous...
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