My 2011 was chaos from multiple angles. Started with a long blogging break because I couldn't string together three sentences, and now it's ending with a reading slump that won't quit. Which explains why I barely read anything this year...

Final recycled post for now (don't wanna overdo it). This time covering an author I discovered more recently than the previous two. Edgar Hilsenrath is a German Jewish writer born in 1926 who survived the Holocaust. His entire body of work...