AUTHOR: Zachary German
READ: October
THOUGHTS: I really enjoyed this book. Probably one of my favorite uses of the ultra concrete/literal/minimal style that is used commonly today. Since I read this book in one sitting (also: I am sick) and the sentences repeat a similar grammatical structure (subject-verb-object or something), the sentences started to feel kind of strange and alienating, despite the appearance of being salient and/or translucent. I guess that kind of reminded me of Grillet. I think the quick/continual movement of events in the text had this slow sort of emotional impact that I didn't expect. On the back of the book it says that Tao Lin calls it strangely avant-garde and accessible at the same time, I would agree. Coooool.
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