This blog is concerned with providing contextual back stories to great literature as well as acting as a "key" to unlocking mysteries of the text, obscure and not. Insights from scholars are noted. Brilliant readers (and not so) are welcome. George Steiner said that an intellectual is someone who can't read a book without a pencil in his or her hand. Blogs are the new pencils. NYT Mag critic Sam Anderson ("Riff") opines: marginalia is "a way to fully enter the text, to collaborate with it."
Friday, January 21, 2011
The War Against Cliché by Martin Amis
The War Against Cliché (2001) is probably the best choice one could make for the final reading assignment, if intending to read all of Amis' oeuvre, as it spans a huge canon of literature and other media. So here I am - 20 books later on a project that started last June.
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