Books! Best to worst.

Colm Toibin, The Magician

Superb. There is a serious factual error in the last chapter that I pointed out to Toibin on his website, but his response is nonexistent.

Labatut, Benjamín, When We Cease to Understand the World

Superb.

Dan Charnas, dilla time

Excellent narrative, thoroughly researched, brimming with ideas like the geographic grid of Detroit mirroring the temporal grid of DAWs, complete with amazing cameos (Hiatus Kaiyote!?).

Jesse Singer, There Are No Accidents

Excellent.

David Sedaris, Carnival of Snackery

Jokey.

Andrea Camilleri, Riccardino

The final installment of the adventures of Commissario Montalbano.

Adrian Tomine, Killing and Dying

Glum but excellent.

David Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon

Good.

Russell, The Sparrow

Good.

Judd Apatow, It’s Garry Shandling’s Book

Okay.

Terry Southern, Blue Movie

Meh, fail.