“All the gods fettered to the machinery of our routine lives” That’s the final line of the poem All God’s Chillun from Greg Pardlo’s newest volume of poetry, 2014’s… Read more “A Review of Gregory Pardlo’s Digest”
Category: Books
Teeth and Bones and No Home to Haunt: A Review of Colin Winnette’s Haints Stay
The Old West of Colin Winnette’s newest book is one denuded of the romance of American goodness, the country’s self-myth of inherent decency and indomitable success. There… Read more “Teeth and Bones and No Home to Haunt: A Review of Colin Winnette’s Haints Stay”
A Review of The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea
Despairing of God I went to the desert to seek my own saint. – from Sonoran Desert Sutras The surface of Luis Alberto Urrea’s newest volume of… Read more “A Review of The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea”
Poetry Matters.
The first writing I ever did was poetry. My sister moved away to college as I was beginning sixth grade, and for some silly reason left her… Read more “Poetry Matters.”
A Review of Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews
In Why God Is a Woman (BOA Editions, 2015), Nin Andrews uses clean, unpretentious language to give us a series of short prose poems that tell of a… Read more “A Review of Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews”
Whisky and the Werewolf: A Review of Andrew Ervin’s Burning Down George Orwell’s House
Ray Welter has no idea who he is anymore. A successful thirtysomething Chicago ad executive who made his name on a campaign that exponentially increased the sales… Read more “Whisky and the Werewolf: A Review of Andrew Ervin’s Burning Down George Orwell’s House”
Don’t You Forget: A Review of Kirk Honeycutt’s John Hughes: A Life in Film
No other filmmaker has ever better understood and better captured the experience of being a teenager in America than John Hughes. The teen films he made in the… Read more “Don’t You Forget: A Review of Kirk Honeycutt’s John Hughes: A Life in Film”
A Review of The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
There is no other fiction author I know of who handles her characters with the grace of Jhumpa Lahiri. Perhaps related, there is no author I know of… Read more “A Review of The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri”
Camp Classic: The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins
The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins (Soft Skull Press, 2015) is more than anything a love story. It’s a love story to movies, and more… Read more “Camp Classic: The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins”
A Review of Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans
You don’t lose your faith all at once. You lose it as a series of small concessions and releases, a string of low-casualty surrenders. With each piece… Read more “A Review of Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans”
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