A new website, Reader of Depressing Books, shows off two interesting angles of approach to literary coverage: the titular interest in “depressing” books, and a unique style of writing that is half prose, half verse. In this review of the work of Lorrie Moore, the anonymous author notes that, “people generally like it—deem it acceptable and important—when problems / are concrete, like cancer or immigration, but do not like it—call it / self-indulgent, unimportant, and selfish—when problems are complex, like / feeling sad or strange or doomed for no easily explainable reason/ but really, people / talking about ‘art’ here/ why do people feel depressed? / not because of one single thing, like cancer or immigration, and not because / of being self-indulgent or weak-minded, but because of the cumulative effect/ of the following, all of which are real things / that we will all die one day, that time moves in one direction and we only / get one chance to get things right, that we are conscious things and so are / conscious that other people are thinking things that we will never truly / understand. . . .”