Wednesday, December 12, 2007

being the third set of anagrams

A collection of anagram titles for The New York Times' ten best books of 2007. The newspaper's summaries are included.

FICTION
GONE NOW, DAMN!
By Michael Thomas
This first novel explores the fragmented personal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer's life.

A SHOE TO IGNORE SLUTS
By Per Petterson
In this short yet spacious Norwegian novel, an Oslo professional hopes to cure his loneliness with a plunge into solitude.

HE GAVE EVE SAD TITS, ETC.
By Roberto BolaƱo, Translated by Natasha Wimmer
A craftily autobiographical novel about a band of literary guerrillas.

TEN_NEW_TEETH_HEAD.COM
By Joshua Ferris
Layoff notices fly in Ferris's acidly funny first novel, set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle.

REEFS TOOK ME
By Denis Johnson
The author of "Jesus' Son" offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War.


NONFICTION

RAPE ME, i.e. Iraq's Neon Decline Filled In My Tight-Size Rear
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
The author, a Washington Post journalist, catalogs the arrogance and ineptitude that marked America's governance of Iraq.

HEATIN' THE LENTILS: Famine, Guts, Hard Times and High Spirits Drag The Rodeo Person In a War
By Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Kalish's soaring love for her childhood memories saturates this memoir, which coaxes the reader into joy, wonder and even envy.

ME UP HERE: Inside the Secret World of the Tennis Court
By Jeffrey Toobin

Doubleday, $27.95. An erudite outsider's account of the cloistered court's inner workings.

I HATE THE ZOO LAB: A Woman Dr. Feels Harm in World History
By Linda Colley

Colley tracks the "compulsively itinerant" Marsh across the 18th century and several continents.

TUNE IN -- INCEST HERE: Howie Stern's one light titty test
By Alex Ross

In his own feat of orchestration, The New Yorker's music critic presents a history of the last century as refracted through its classical music.

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