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    Katy and I Discuss the First Two Oasis Albums

    My friend Katy and I discuss that most British of bands today—Oasis. We disagreed a bit. Read below to watch our friendship dismantle in real time (I… Read more “Katy and I Discuss the First Two Oasis Albums”

    December 18, 2017 by David Nilsen

    Katy and I Discuss Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes Album

    After our recent discussion of Hole’s Live Through This album, my friend Katy and I continued our 1990s nostalgia trek with this conversation about Tori Amos’s heart-rending… Read more “Katy and I Discuss Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes Album”

    December 13, 2017December 13, 2017 by David Nilsen

    Katy and I Discuss Hole’s Live Through This Album

    My friend Katy Goodwin-Bates and I discuss a lot of things—books, music… well, okay, we mostly just discuss books and music. But in this retrospective conversation about… Read more “Katy and I Discuss Hole’s Live Through This Album”

    December 11, 2017 by David Nilsen

    A Review of We Were Witches by Ariel Gore

    This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. We Were Witches, underground literary goddess Ariel Gore’s newest novel, should be required reading, and I’m not even going… Read more “A Review of We Were Witches by Ariel Gore”

    December 5, 2017December 5, 2017 by David Nilsen

    A Review of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A.C. Wise

    The characters of A.C. Wise‘s stories in The Kissing Booth Girl (Lethe Press, 2016) are outsiders, every one of them. Some have secrets and hide in plain sight, others… Read more “A Review of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A.C. Wise”

    September 13, 2017 by David Nilsen

    Tuesday Weld

    It’s fitting that Tuesday Weld is a patron saint of weirdos and obsessives, the cinephile’s Shirley Jackson, a star everyone knows about but no one really knows. She… Read more “Tuesday Weld”

    August 27, 2017 by David Nilsen

    Katy and I Discuss Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done

    Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one Here is the U.S.,… Read more “Katy and I Discuss Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done”

    August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 by David Nilsen

    A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

    This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Mohsin Hamid’s much-anticipated fourth novel Exit Westmakes deft use of a single fantastical element to create a magical realist novel… Read more “A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid”

    August 8, 2017 by David Nilsen

    The Weekly Recaps that Might’ve Been

    I did weekly recaps on this site for a while. They were taking a silly amount of time each week, so I stopped. But… I didn’t replace… Read more “The Weekly Recaps that Might’ve Been”

    August 4, 2017 by David Nilsen

    Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook

    Confession: I’ve never read any of Jeff Vandermeer’s fiction. Which makes it a little odd that I decided to read his book about writing, but in some… Read more “Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook”

    June 28, 2017 by David Nilsen

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