“Is sport really an opiate for the masses or something a lot more profound? According to the likes of Albert Camus and David Foster Wallace, it’s most certainly the latter. Author Shane Anderson cuts a similar jib, positing that it just might hold the key to understanding life itself.” –GRAEME CAMPBELL at Highsnobiety
Review and performance at the book launch of K.D.’s Headless at Triple Canopy.
Ann Quin’s Surrealist Novel ‘Berg’ Annihilates All Expectation reviewed at The Nation.
I reviewed Rainald Goetz’s “Rave” (translated by Adrian Nathan West and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions) in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Designer Prem Krishnamurthy writes: “A weird, worthwhile, and sometimes even useful piece of writing.”
Publishers Weekly gave After the Oracle a positive review: “This evocative story deserves a wide audience.”
Rob Madole interviewed me for the LARB and had this to say about After the Oracle: “Bracingly honest, tender, and formally inventive, the book manages to find a new approach to an age-old question: what does it take to live a meaningful life?”
Richard Crepeau reviewed After the Oracle and wrote: “as a study in the salvaging of a life, this small volume offers a fascinating and remarkable story of one man’s love of sport, devotion to a team, and how that saves his life.”