Jeff Bursey’s Reviews > American Energies: Essays on Fiction > Status Update
Jeff Bursey
is on page 178 of 413
This is a bit of a slog. The essays are drab, with hardly any pulse or wordplay, and coating every one is a depression caused by television. The "energies" the title speaks of aren't anywhere in the prose. It's not academese, at least, but it's dull.
— Oct 12, 2025 01:29PM
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Jeff Bursey
is on page 170 of 413
No mention of Gass, one mention of Sorrentino, as he wonders why the novel is in such sad shape.
— Oct 10, 2025 10:17PM
Jeff Bursey
is on page 62 of 413
Such a concentration on t.v. (this book came out in 1992) sucking the life out of people in the first section. Seems like a simpler time. Occasionally, reading a nonfiction book from only a couple of so decades ago feels like reading a medieval manuscript written in easier to comprehend spelling.
— Oct 07, 2025 06:06AM
