A Review of Earthling: A New Ethics for the Anthropocene by Dean Wallraff I've written a handful of reviews for authors I've known, but none whose narrative includes the author's remarkable -- and relevant -- life story. Privy as I am to some of … [Read more]
Elevating the Ordinary: Gravity vs. Karl Ove Knausgaard
It's a legitimate writing class exercise to ask new writers to write about the ordinary -- to elevate, inspire, observe, to counter the downward pull of the overexposed and unprepossessing. Considering how much of the world fits that category (hence … [Read more]
The Little Clan of Literate Discourse
Read fast, as this literate world grows more little by the day In the world imagined by Iris Martin Cohen, would the sometimes mysterious fascination of Little Women be revealed? Perhaps by a character about whom the narrator writes is "desperate … [Read more]
What passes for perverted is normal, and vice versa: a review of Jen Silverman’s The Island Dwellers collection
There is such a thing as a credible joke -- one based in astute observation, irony, paradox. Such humor lies at the opposite end of puns: it’s richly semantic. If credibility matters, do read this collection. You’ll be laughing, but the laughter is … [Read more]
Sync with the Inefficiencies of Time
A review of The After Party, a poetry collection by Jana Prikryl (Tim Duggan Books | Crown, 2016). In this poetry collection by Jana Prikryl, multiple voices strive to be heard. They include the casual ("I mean there was literally nothing I could … [Read more]
Acquiring Humility by Accident
NY Times reviewer Gregory Cowles remembers the late Jim Harrison with a few sentences from Harrison's novella "The Ancient Minstrel (Grove Atlantic). In a lifetime of walking in the woods, plains, gullies, mountains, I have found that the body … [Read more]
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