Here's the link. The essay is about how three common kinds of New Year's loneliness correspond to the taxonomy of loneliness I experienced while living in solitude, and how the deepest level might actually be a spur to live a more meaningful live.
Here's a recommendation for John Banville's beautiful novel Eclipse.
Here's an excerpt from Dwight Garner's review in the New York Times:
"Mr. Axelrod is clearly a gifted writer. His book is flecked with wide-awake observations…He is fearless about showing himself in a bad light…The best thing about Mr. Axelrod's frequently absorbing book is how idiosyncratic it feels; he is a unique presence on the page. You feel he is saying, to quote Robert Louis Stevenson, 'You must suffer me to go my own dark way.'"
Many books on my bedside table on this list--honored that The Point of Vanishing is listed with them. Here's the link.
Honored to see The Point of Vanishing on this list. Here's the link.
Here's the list...very moving for me for my book to be beside Oliver Sacks' memoir.
A great review from books editor Laurie Hertzel. Here's the link.
Lit Hub picked five books that are making news, and included excerpts of reviews. Here's the link.
Grateful to Laura Miller for situating The Point of Vanishing in the context of a larger literary tradition. Here's the link.
Here's the link. What inspiring company!
The Point of Vanishing was chosen as the hot book in the Minneapolis Star Tribune's round-up of exciting new work in film, TV, music, visual art, and literature. Here's the link. And here's an excerpt.
"Howard Axelrod’s memoir “The Point of Vanishing” is beautiful in its intensity, searing in its pain. Axelrod, 20-year-old golden boy at Harvard, stops by the gym to shoot hoops, and just like that, his life changes...His eventual solution is to withdraw from the world in order to figure it out anew, and his place in it. It’s a breathtaking read."
Author Tim Weed wrote a beautiful review in The Rumpus. Here's the link.