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Jim Brown

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http://jamesjbrownjr.net English professor Teaches and studies rhetoric and digital studies Director of the Rutgers-Camden Digital Studies Center (DiSC): http://digitalstudies.camden.rutgers.edu

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reviewed How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Sequoia Nagamatsu: How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover, 2022, William Morrow)

Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …

Pandemic novel about generational strife

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I didn't expect this pandemic/space travel novel to be so much about children who are disappointing their parents.

This felt more like an interconnected collection of short stories in the same world than a novel. In that sense, it was similar to Rion Amilcar Scott's The World Doesn't Require you.

reviewed Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy: Stella Maris (2022, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

When We Cease to Understand the World, but a novel

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If you liked Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, then you'll like this.

I can't imagine the amount of research into mathematics and physics that McCarthy had to do in order to write both this and The Passenger.

A final note: There is significant overlap in the worldview of Alicia and No Country For Old Men's Anton Chigurh, which really has me wondering about the worldview of Cormac McCarthy...because that worldview is pretty bleak.