new york times 10 best books
The New York Times just released it’s 10 Best Books List – You can check out the top 100 here. I’ll just touch on the fiction selections because there’s bound to be something political on that other ‘non’ one and to be quite honest, I don’t have the stomach for it today – am fighting nausea as we speak, bit of a bug and all.
The five authors lucky enough to find themselves in this enviable position? The lovely Marisha Pessl for one. Her freshman effort, the hefty Nabokovian construction “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” finds itself alongside Richard Ford and “The Lay of the Land”. No surprise Amy Hempel is there with her short story collection – The Times loves her. Then there’s Gary Shteyngart and “Absurdistan” which I wont be picking up – I’ve had enough of Borat this year. (Still funny though.)
