Thomas Cook wrote a great review of E! for The Rumpus, calling it powerful and sinister. Also we are running out of first edition books--snag yours soon, if you havent. Cook writes: David Foster Wallace’s essays (particularly “E Unibus Pluram”) and fiction (stories such as “Little Expressionless Animal” and “My Appearance,” and, of course Infinite Jest) have given us a sense of a premillennial set of concerns about television and entertainment with regard to irony, sincerity, and entertainment commodities and forms, but Durbin’s book represents/realizes more precisely the cultural milieu that we find ourselves in. Whereas Wallace sought to get under the skin of television personalities in his early short fiction, Durbin gives us what we see and hear from the programming itself. Rendered in her stripped-down prose, prose that forces us to pause and reabsorb what we have already seen and heard, this may be a much more powerful — and sinister — endeavor.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:37:52 +0000
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