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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

=Book recently read: Lucky Alan by Jonathan Lethem=



Well-written, mildly inventive, these stories touch on the mild weirdness of ordinary life. By keeping one narrative foot planted solidly in the “real” world, Lethem insures that you can never entirely dismiss his paranoiac imagination and conspiratorial obsessions as mere flights of fancy. His stories don’t leave you feeling like you’ll never see the world the same way again as they make you aware that you never suspected that you saw it as so weird in the first place. (Well, I needed no reminding, but the average reader might. If anything, I would’ve liked the weirdness dial turned way up.)


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