How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

Pierre Bayard

The title belies the real subject, which is an argument against reading and for writing. The book that convinced me to launch this site.

Gravity’s Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Pynchon’s famously difficult masterpiece. I destroyed three copies in a (failed) effort to grasp it completely.

The Comedy of Survival

Joseph Meeker

Meeker argues that the destructive aspects of western civilization are founded on the tragic mode, while the comic mode offers a path for redemption.