My review of Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge is available online at Library Journal (September 1, 2011). The review is on the Fiction Reviews page. Scroll about halfway down the fiction section. Not really my thing, but it should appeal to lots of people who are not me. I’m glad to see Library Journal left in my description of it as a WMFUN (White Male Fuck-Up Novel), a phrase I stole from The Morning News Tournament of Books,* as it sums up the novel in one short phrase.
*This link leads to a discussion of Next as a WMFUN, the WMFUN’s relationship to chick-lit and why the writers think WMFUNs get taken more seriously than chick-lit.
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