Tim Yu asks: "Does anyone else write Amazon reviews?" Not me (though I think I have a review of a Suehiro Maruo collection somewhere there).
Rob Wilson does, though, in all his "Postmodern X" glory. Here's his review of Pamela Lu's Pamela: A Novel, and I quote it in full, totally without permission (Tim, you might be interested in his review of Wittgenstein's Ladder as well):
Proustian "new sentence hits Bay Area streets in a novel called "Pamela" and the formations of space, time and subjectivity are irrevokably altered in this splendid book. Like Henry Adams, Lu is caught between one world dying and another world being born, and she is the cyborg maker of this mongrel syntax, part novel, part autobiography, cool, lyrical, perverse. It is a work of great abstraction and reverse specificity, creating the ethnoscape of silicon valley selfhood in a way that alters reading habits and creates the retro-fitted syntax of postmodern post-fordist subjectivity. It is a poem in motion towards the dismantlement of boredom: should be required reading for high school prodigies, Wheeler Hall savants, and shopping mall saints.Word. Posted by the wily filipino at May 6, 2003 11:01 PM