THE STORY REVIEW

by jennifer egan
alfred a. knopf, 2006
review by daniel story

The Keep will treat you right. It won’t drag you around, won’t show up late, won’t forget your birthday. It’s not looking at its phone or scanning the room for hotties—it wants to be here, with you. You have its full attention.

The Keep won’t talk about you behind your back. It won’t bring up your old mistakes in public conversations. It won’t ask, with a long sigh, why you never went back for your Master’s. It gets along with your friends. It doesn’t act like its too good you (maybe it doesn’t even know that it is).

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by william giraldi
w.w. norton & co., 2011
review by daniel story

Busy Monsters is the opposite of ironic detachment.

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by william gibson
g. p. putnam’s sons, 2007 

by way of

“Zero History”
by william gibson
g. p. putnam’s sons, 2010

and also, a little,

“Pattern Recognition”
by william gibson
g. p. putnam’s sons, 2003

and also

oh whatever just go to his wikipedia page and click on all the books

review by daniel story

Spook Country does not need our excuses. In fact, it would prefer to be left alone—at its table in the corner of the coffee shop, with its back to the wall and clear lines of sight to all the doors, where it is reading your email on its phone.

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by Tina May Hall
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010
review by Daniel Story

The Physics of Imaginary Objects is like a long conversation with an old friend that proceeds late into the night and thoroughly confirms everything you suspected about her, but ends with her revealing that she played ice hockey all through college—on a men’s club team—for the hitting. And you can tell she really means that last part because when she says it she does this thing with her eyes that you’ve only seen her do once before, when she told you about this guy she just met who, fourteen months later, was her husband.

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