Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

I’ve already got my hands or got through a lot of the biggest books this fall (The Shock Doctrine 1408 , the Architects are Here) but there are a few others worth mentioning:

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by Stephen Marche:

I’m about two-thirds of the way through this one. I absolutely loved Marche’s first book Raymond and Hannah

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and I would’ve been happy enough if he followed it up with another book that explores love, betrayal, distance and separation. You can write dozens of books on these themes. Instead Marche went in another direction completely and created a faux-anthology of literature from the imaginary island of Sanjania. If you’ve ever studied post-colonial literature, the book is a real treat. Marche seems to really get how these themes and ideas are created and, oh yeah, the writing in the book is also pretty damned good.

A few reviews here and here.

Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine:

Tomine is my favourite graphic novelist and I’m excited about his appearance at this year’s IFOA and the release of his first full-length graphic novel Shortcomings. Tomine is one of the best out there at capturing the awkward, sometimes-painful, experience of being in love, being out of love and not finding love. He also draws the most hauntingly-beautiful women.

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An interview with Adrian Tomine in the current issue of Giant Robot (sorry, no online excerpt!) here, oh he’ll be at the IFOA this month!

As a consolation here’s an interview from Bookslut.

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by Douglas Coupland:

I have a love-hate relationship with Douglas Coupland, who I think is coasting off the success of his first book (really, his best book) and might actuallly be a better visual artist and designer than novelist. But the word on the street about his new book is that it’s actually very good. I’m willing to give him another chance.

Really, he’s a much better artist.

My friend Mason Wright has been poking sticks at wasps nests. He wrote a post over on the This magazine blog pondering the popularity of right-wing blogs

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Most of the responses are very enlightening, constructive and informative. But of course there are also a few wingnuts thrown into the mix. This is, after all, the blogasphere. So if any of you smart, witty folks want to throw you two cents into the fracas that’d be much appreciated.