Book of the Week: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen’s 2008 debut, Atmospheric Disturbances, fit nicely alongside the other books Marco Roth dubbed “neuronovels,” literary fiction “wherein the mind becomes the brain.” It was witty and weird enough to earn her comparisons to Murakami and Pynchon, but the sometimes bewildering book just felt like it was going a little too off the rails, even for a novel with a narrator as unreliable as Galchen’s Dr. Leo Liebenstein. Atmospheric Disturbances showed a ton of promise, but in fiction, promise doesn’t always deliver. … Read More
10 Memoirs About Terrible Mothers
Mother’s Day is this weekend, and what better way to celebrate our moms than by thanking our lucky stars they aren’t abusive, psychotic, or addicted to drugs? In an effort to gain some perspective on how bad our childhoods could have been, here’s a list of ten memoirs about bad moms who, despite their occasional saving graces, probably didn’t get a lot of flowers on Mother’s Day. … Read More
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