Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
The Poet. The Novelist. You know the type. The capitalization shows even when they refuse to...
Read MoreThe Poet. The Novelist. You know the type. The capitalization shows even when they refuse to...
Read MoreGrowing up in a rural part of the Midwest in the 1980s, what I learned about Communism was limited...
Read MoreIt isn’t often that I search for other reviews of a book before finishing at least a draft...
Read MoreTo get the mundane aspects out of the way early: there’s nothing mechanically wrong...
Read More… Doesn’t it always seem that’s how it is, Tom? We lie the most to those nearest...
Read MoreAndre Dubus III is the kind of writer every MFA student in the 1990s aspired to be. A...
Read MoreStop me if you’ve heard this one before. It’s a man’s world. And in this man’s world, a woman has...
Read MoreWithin a month of this writing, the state of Texas performed its 500th execution since 1982. That...
Read MoreTom Gauld, cartoonist for the book review section of The Guardian, published a piece that I think...
Read MoreI want to bawl like a drunken aunt. I wanna grind my teeth to stumps and punch the wall, but I...
Read More“No point in thinking,” [Ursula] said briskly, “you just have to get on with...
Read MoreBack in my MFA days at a midwestern university whose faculty came a bit late to the whole postmodernism thing, I took a contemporary fiction course with a professor who liked to make the claim, during nearly every class, that all works of art were in some way about the making of art.…
Read More[A Life in Books; In Books, a Life] By Josh Hanagarne’s account, the consistent presence of books is the base on which his life finds its stability.…
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