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Where You Are

January 18, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: A collection of sixteen maps that consider the questions of time, space, being, and what, exactly, it means to ‘be’ somewhere.  Some quite literally map out a place while others spin something out of invention and imagination – but all tell you, in one way or another, exactly where you are. The Review: It took me a while to work this one up, I must say – just because I kept going back to look at the maps […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Adam Thirlwell, Alain de Botton, BBC, Bibliothèque, Chloe Aridjis, Denis Wood, Fiction, Geoff Dyer, Google, Google Labs, James Bridle, Joe Dunthrone, John Simpson, Leanne Shapton, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Literature, Maps, Olafur Eliasson, Peter Turchi, Sheila Heti, Short Stories, Tao Lin, Ted Mineo, The Workers, Valeria Luiselli, VE5, Visual Editions, Where You Are, Will Gompertz, Will Wiles

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Taipei

July 27, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: A year and a half (give or take) in the life of Paul, a novelist in his mid-twenties who “works on things”, takes a lot of drugs, and traverses life from a strange muted distance – even when he’s close to someone. The Review: So I feel a bit out of the loop – I did not, until this book came out, know who Tao Lin was.  I mention this because Clancy Martin’s NYTimes review implies that this means […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Brooklyn, Drugs, Fiction, Literature, Taipei, Tao Lin

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