After the giddy comedy of jPod, Douglas Coupland has returned to the suburbs with his eleventh work of fiction. The Gum Thief is set in a Staples office superstore, where disparate people are thrown together. We first meet Roger, a sad-sack, forty-something divorcee who is struggling with both the composition of his first novel and […]
Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
September 12, 2007 – 10:37 am
Yesterday, I caught myself, yet again, recommending this collection to a friend. It’s that kind of book: the kind that becomes an obsession, the kind that turns you into a bore because you can’t stop forcing it on friends/acquaintances/strangers in the street.
David Foster Wallace has a unique voice, approaching fiction writing with a scientific precision, […]
Review: The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel
June 27, 2007 – 2:16 pm
Here at Transmission we read an awful lot of books - more books than we can review on the pages of our magazine. So we had the idea of sharing our thoughts on this blog - extra reviews for those of you who are hungry to find new authors, or if you are too wary […]
Transmission featured in The Guardian!
July 18, 2006 – 4:53 pm
Transmission was featured in The Guardian review on Saturday 15th July. Read what they had to say here.