The Millions asked me to give some highlights from my “Year in Reading.”
And in other news, I am on the long list of contestants being considered by the Morning News for a literary cage-fighting battle royale.
The Millions asked me to give some highlights from my “Year in Reading.”
And in other news, I am on the long list of contestants being considered by the Morning News for a literary cage-fighting battle royale.
Happy to report that Necessary Errors has shown up on a few year-end round-ups. At Flavorwire, Jason Diamond has named it one of the ten best debut novels of the year. David Haglund at Slate has picked it as his favorite book of 2013. The Kansas City Star included it in a list of the top 100 books of the year. At the blog Band of Thebes, Michael Alenyikov and Stephen McCauley both cited it as one of the best LGBT books they read this year. Maris Kreizman of Slaughterhouse 90210 called it the “MOST IMMERSIVE” of her favorites. And at Policy Mic, Gracie Jin has listed it among the twenty best books for various kinds of twenty-something-year-olds. My thanks to all of these people!
Necessary Errors is the next book in Mashable’s online book club, which will take the form of a Twitter chat via the handle @mashlifestyle on November 5, between 5:30pm and 6pm. In anticipation, I’ve answered a few of the Mashable editors’ questions about life before smartphones and my fetish for protective polyester sheeting.
There’s a very generous review of the novel in the L.A. Review of Books by Lyle Zimskind, who is himself an old Prague hand.
And for $30, n+1 will sell you the “circuitous path” that I took to reach my novel, as chronicled in the pages of that journal.
In the Toronto Star, Emily Donaldson compares the advent of my novel to “Venus rising from the foamy sea.”
In the Wall Street Journal, Matt Welch reviews my novel (subscription required). Welch was once an editor of Prognosis, an English-language newspaper in Prague, and he cops to first-hand knowledge of the setting.