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Monsterpieces: DeLillo's Underworld
The publication of Vollmann’s mother (and father) of all monsterpieces has me looking back at the works discussed so far. I’ve realized that monsterpieces don’t come along very often, the reason that some novels outside my planned ten-year...
Monsterpieces: Anti-Towers
Streit: The demythologizing or de-aurizing of powerful cultural sites is probably even more obvious in the photos of New York’s Freedom Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
LeClair: The tree in the first photograph partly obstructs the Tower w...
Monsterpieces: Anti-Towers
Towers? Photographs?
Some of the last words of Gravity’s Rainbow, my main and abiding monsterpiece, are “brought the Towers low.” Probably initially referring to the rockets in the novel, “Towers” are also Pynchon’s symbol of humans’ histo...
Monsterpieces: William Vollmann's Volumes
[When an editor at the New York Times Book Review asked me in mid December of 2025 if I might be interested in reviewing Vollmann’s four-volume novel A Table for Fortune, which the editor described as a “MONSTERpiece,” he didn’t sound very...
Monsterpieces: Bloomsday
[Today is Bloomsday, and the Irish writer, whose pseudonym is Guillermo Stitch, is releasing his long and highly literary (but not really all that Joycean) novel The Coast of Everything. It could be a monsterpiece—or a folly. If you want fa...
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At the age of 81, I've posted "Passing Down," the memoir of a lucky man whose luck ran out when he was diagnosed with cancer. Now that the memoir is finished, I'm posting "Monsterpieces," a decade of my published reviews of long novels.
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