“The Half Life” and Jonathan Raymond
Jon Raymond was responsible for getting my first stories published in Tin House Magazine where he was working as an editor in 2002. He practically re-wrote the entire story for me and if it wasn’t for him I never would have finished my first book. So finally I got around to reading his first novel “The Half Life”. My bad for taking so long. Sorry Jon. This is an amazing debut novel with one of the sweetest characters I’ve ever known. I will post my full Amazon review below. Let me just say here that Jonathon is a truly genius American writer and “The Half Life” is a hauntingly beautiful and lush novel in character, setting and plot. I’ve been thinking about it for weeks now…
Wow - I must buy that!
Comment by Atheist — March 7, 2007 @ 10:53 am
You are so sweet…and I think the only person who reads my blog too.
Comment by mattylee — March 7, 2007 @ 11:16 am
Well, I doubt that! But thank you!
Comment by Atheist — March 11, 2007 @ 5:57 am
Hey, I’ve just started reading this booked called ‘Male Prostitution’ by Doug West and it’s so interesting. Although I don’t like the way he talks about the people in it as ‘cases’. Then I’m going to read ‘Strapped For Cash’ (which looks utterly, utterly awesome - thanks so much for recommending it to me!)
Comment by Atheist — March 18, 2007 @ 1:36 am