Monthly Archives: October 2016
Book 4: ‘The Regional Office Is Under Attack!’ by Manuel Gonzales
Posted on October 19, 2016 Leave a Comment
For the next two weeks, Football Book Club will be reading The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales and posting about An Untamed State by Roxane Gay. Chandler nominated The Regional Office Is Under Attack! for FBC because, “in his short story collection The Miniature Wife, Manuel Gonzales managed to make the plight of a zombie, a video game […]
A Dark Space With No Exit
Posted on October 10, 2016 Leave a Comment
By Ryan Joe Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State is both very easy and very difficult to read. Easy because the novel follows the general outlines of a thriller – the heroine is kidnapped and eventually released – and because Gay’s prose is clear and unadorned, save for the opening sentence. That candid writing style guides […]
Book 3: ‘An Untamed State’ by Roxane Gay
Posted on October 2, 2016 Leave a Comment
For the next two weeks, Football Book Club will be reading An Untamed State by Roxane Gay and posting about Zero K by Don DeLillo. Ryan nominated An Untamed State for FBC because, “At face value, An Untamed State, about a young mother kidnapped for ransom in Haiti, is ostensibly the stuff of pulp. But Roxane Gay, based […]
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