They don't make books like this anymore and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Some of the stories hit, some go too long, and there are three or four in a row that rob all the joy from music, but Rosendorfer has managed to sew together about three enchanting patches into one lumpy duvet of a narrative and that's more than most of us.
It's been far too long since I last wrote and while I can blame some of the delay on the impending energy crisis, the country's self-inflicted war wounds, and whether a head of state's recent public appearances are actually AI (???), there's actually
Reading any universally agreed-upon "classic" brings predictable anxiety. What if it's bad? Worse, what if it's boring? Worst (!), what if it doesn't matter??? But, notwithstanding a few eye-rolling decisions by Mary Shelley in her 200-year-old sci-fi progenitor (she cites her husband'
It's good to, once in a while, read something bad, especially when others insist it's great. Ben Shattuck's collection of short stories, "The History of Sound," is just that—serviceable writing that has received heaps of praise since its 2024 release (The
I haven't read a book like this in two ways: * In years, when I last devoured a text in 80-page sprints, completing the work in less than a week (the last time I accomplished this near osmosis was more than 15 years ago with "100 Years of