The 2011 edition of the Best Music Writing anthology is out now, with readings to follow next week in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Michaelangelo Matos has compiled links to nearly all of the pieces listed as honorable mentions in this year’s volume. The next pick for Chuck Palahniuk’s book club? Ben Tanzer’s You Can Make Him Like You. (Our review is here.) When Richard Yates met Larry David… In today’s “Vol.1 editors linking things they’ve written” department, may we present Tobias Carroll’s […]
Reviewed: Ben Tanzer’s “You Can Make Him Like You”
Review by Tobias Carroll You Can Make Him Like You by Ben Tanzer Artistically Declined Press; 214 p. “I am a selfish cocksucker.” That’s how Keith, the narrator of Ben Tanzer’s You Can Make Him Like You, first introduces himself to us. And throughout the book, Tanzer leaves it up to the reader to determine whether or not that self-assessment is accurate. Keith is a contradictory figure: the lone conservative in his social group; a man who enjoys the music […]