Random Neural Misfirings

Just finished reading Jennifer Government by Max Barry, a blackly satirical story that answers the musical question “what would happen if Ayn Rand had her way?” The book has inspired an online game and is evidently being adapted to the screen.
It would actually make a good comic book, and I don’t mean that in a [...]

Finished reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Very enjoyable. Partly, to me, because of its involvement with the early days of comic books (I collected comics when I was younger), partly because it’s just an engaging story. Michael Chabon seems to have done a prodigious amount of research to fill in the details [...]

Just finished reading David Sedaris’ Naked. Like his other writing, it’s hilarious, and consists mostly of personal anecdotes that he’s embellished perhaps just a bit.
This one includes a more schmaltzy (but still hilarious in spots) essay on his mother when she had lung cancer.
The book’s last essay, the one from which it draws its title, [...]

Just finished William Gibson’s latest, All Tomorrow’s Parties