"“I’m re-reading A Way In The World by VS Naipaul. I read it maybe 10 years ago, and remembered loving it, but that is literally the only thing I remember about it. I think I might not retain a single thing from anything I read ever."

"Set in the small vacation town of Littleport, Maine, you’ll meet visitor Sadie Loman and resident Avery Greer. These two are inseparable for almost a decade—until Sadie Loman is found dead. Secrets that have been hidden for years will be uncovered in this thrilling story."

"It’s fashionable to read ‘Naked Lunch,’ proclaim Burroughs as a genius, sometimes dip into ‘Junky,’ and forget the rest. The truth is that Burroughs’ best novels were the ones he wrote in the later years of his life, like ‘The Western Lands,’ and this beautiful work."

"Full disclosure: I was the acquiring editor of this book for Pantheon, and back in 1999 I pitched it to the Random House sales force as ‘The “Ulysses” of comics.’ I think that description holds up just fine 18 years and just as many re-printings later."

"I’d been after this for years, and it didn’t disappoint. It’s a neon acid trip of a movie. Incredible soundtrack as well. I think there’s a line where incredibly stylized movies can achieve an emotional sense that you can’t get to through documentary or traditional Hollywood styles."