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I'd rather be decomposing beneath this beautiful landscape than starting a graduate program right now.

What I Love About America

The first thing I loved about America was that it was colorful, vibrant, wild, and strange. There was more to see on that tiny little island than I could explore in a lifetime. I lived in a mostly-white suburb, but that wasn’t America. America was New York. America was the world. America was everything.

Book Review: Infinite Jest, Truly

By: Amira K. November 20, 2013

Book ReviewAmerica, book review, David Foster Wallace, depression, entertainment, fiction, Infinite Jest, literary, literature, loneliness, reading, writing3 Comments

Infinite Jest is, no joke, a work of near-infinity and plentiful jest. Weighing in at 981 pages, not to mention another 98 of microscopic-font-size footnotes, at the beginning the book was a hassle to read just because of the challenge of balancing it on my chest as I was reading in bed. I quickly relegated it…

Alex Shakar’s “Luminarium” and Why Everyone Must Read It

By: Amira K. May 12, 2012July 10, 2013

Book ReviewAmerica, books, existentialism, literature, philosophy, religion9 Comments

“Luminarium” is, perhaps, the “L’Etranger” of America’s 21st century. It is a quintessential existential appraisal of life in the jet stream; a marvelous re-examining of all that Americans hold dear in our fast-paced, ambitious, over-eager, petty little lives. “Luminarium” follows the life of Fred Brounian – whose identical twin brother has fallen into a coma…

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