“On one level, An Odyssey elegantly retells the story of that course, complete with all the gags, competition, and good cheer of an intragenerational bromance … Chapter by chapter, An Odyssey dives deeper and excavates a complex and moving portrait of Mendelsohn’s special student.
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
Cathleen Schine ( The New York Review of Books)ģ. She writes about rape and its aftermath with such wounded, intelligent anger that a crime we are used to seeing primarily in sensational form on television becomes our reality as well as hers. Gay writes of extreme obesity with such candor and energetic annoyance that her frustration with herself and with the world around her attains universality. On the contrary, the movement of her thought and prose is open and expansive. “ Hunger is a walk in Gay’s shoes, a record of the private pain of the endless and endlessly mundane inconvenience of travel through a world set up for people who move through the world differently than you do … Gay describes herself as ‘self-obsessed,’ but she has written a memoir that never slides into narcissism. Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body by Roxane Gay – Dave Eggers ( The New York Times Book Review)Ģ. As a writer he is generous of spirit, willing to give even the most scurrilous of characters the benefit of the doubt … in these last pages, Grann takes what was already a fascinating and disciplined recording of a forgotten chapter in American history, and with the help of contemporary Osage tribe members, he illuminates a sickening conspiracy that goes far deeper than those four years of horror.
disturbing and riveting book … If this all sounds like the plot of a detective novel, you have fallen under the spell of David Grann’s brilliance…As a reporter he is dogged and exacting, with a singular ability to uncover and incorporate obscure journals, depositions and ledgers without ever letting the plot sag.
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