ABOUT TRE

The Reading Experience is a literary weblog that began in January of 2004, at the beginning of the initial wave of blogs focused on writing and literature. While many of the functions first served by literary blogs--links to literary news and reviews, pithy comments on literary developments of all kinds--have now been assumed by social media, TRE continues to feature more extended literary criticism, including reviews, commentary on the literary scene, reflections on literary practice, and longer critical essays.

On the left sidebar column, you will find (1) links to several supplementary sites collecting essays (many, but not all, began as reviews) on contemporary writers, grouped according to my underlying interests in the modes and tendencies they represent, and 2) links to posts on other topics discussed frequently over the course of the blog's existence. The contents of the supplementary sites are in many cases also available in portable form (pdfs and epubs), but all of them can be easily accessed through the websites.

On the right sidebar, you will find links to my 2016 book, Beyond the Blurb (Cow Eye Press), as well as Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction, a book currently in progress that I have been excerpting on the blog. (Eventually the entire book will likely appear in embryonic form on the blog through these excerpts.) Following these is a "chronicle" of the fiction reviews I have written over the years, listed in reverse chronological order. Some of these were written directly for the blog, while others were originally published elsewhere.

Please feel free to email me with comments about anything you see here, or leave comments below.

Comments

[Majena Mafe]

Dear Daniel Green, finding and reading your work n this site has meant a lot to me and I just wanted to thank you for your thinking.

Though I'm writing in what feels like a vacuum I'm not and your articulation and contextualizing of ideas and approaches that are similar to mine gives me the feeling that there is an ear for work outside the dominant frame ... so thank you very much, your work has reinspired me and provided a 'virtual' lifeline. I will keep going.

wishing you all the best Majena

[Daniel Green]

Thank you very much for your nice words. Let me know where your work can be found and I'll lend an ear myself.