Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mineis a critique of both consumer culture and our society’s obsession with beauty. Set in an unspecified near future… Read more “A Review of Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine”
Category: Books
Interstellar Cinderella: Because Kick-Ass Feminism Starts Young
I work at a public library, and I recently perused the New Books shelf in our children’s department to see if there was anything worth bringing home… Read more “Interstellar Cinderella: Because Kick-Ass Feminism Starts Young”
A Review of Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis
Robin Coste Lewis’s National Book Award-winning Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems is a powerful collection that beautifully blends the personal and the political. The book is organized… Read more “A Review of Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis”
A Review of Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson
JJ Amaworo Wilson’s Damnificados is based on real events, which seems almost incredible until you remember what a truly strange world we live in. These are the facts… Read more “A Review of Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson”
A Review of Not Dark Yet by Berit Ellingsen
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”
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”
davidnilsenwriter.com 