I love Two Dollar Radio, the indie press from my home state of Ohio that just released Berit Ellingsen’s Not Dark Yet. I really wish I loved Not Dark… Read more “A Review of Not Dark Yet by Berit Ellingsen”
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A Review of Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Gold Fame Citrus by Vaye Watkins is a feverish parable about an American near-future without water. Not long from now the American West, a largely arid region… Read more “A Review of Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins”
2016 Books
Here are the books being released in 2016 (that I know about) I am most excited and interested about. Which titles are you most looking forward to?… Read more “2016 Books”
2015 Books Still to Read
I read a lot of books in 2015, but there were still plenty of titles last year I missed. Here are the ones I hope to catch… Read more “2015 Books Still to Read”
Books I Read in 2015
Here’s every book I read in 2015. An * designates a book I had read previously but reread in 2015. NonfictionReeling Through Life: How I Learned to… Read more “Books I Read in 2015”
A Review of Iliana Rocha’s Karankawa
The Karankawa, as explained briefly in the foreword to Iliana Rocha’s debut poetry collection of that title (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), were a tribe of Indians who… Read more “A Review of Iliana Rocha’s Karankawa”
Casablanca (1942)
When someone asks me what my favorite movie is, I feel a little sheepish admitting it’s probably Casablanca. It feels like a cliché to pick perhaps the most… Read more “Casablanca (1942)”
Two Ways to Lose a Child
Katie Ford’s Blood Lyrics and Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel: A Poem were among my favorite poetry collections of 2014, and both work on the same heartrending theme: the loss, or potential loss,… Read more “Two Ways to Lose a Child”
A Review of Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver’s newest collection of poetry is a simple one, and as lovely and as gently insightful as we’ve come to expect from one of our greatest… Read more “A Review of Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver”
A Review of Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn
I am a sucker for improvised families in fiction. Vagrants who have each other’s backs, college kids who celebrate the holidays together instead of going home even… Read more “A Review of Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn”
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