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SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: the great gatsby + the social network… works?

SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: the great gatsby + the social network… works?

May 24, 2013
Evan Karp
Book Review, NEWS, REVIEWS

Of course it does. 

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INSENSIBILITY TO PAIN: a review of joe clifford's junkie love

INSENSIBILITY TO PAIN: a review of joe clifford’s junkie love

May 7, 2013
Steven Gray
Book Review, I WOULD SAY, REVIEWS, Reviews by Steven Gray

The wife was out of town and I was all set to watch “Reservoir Dogs”, which I have never seen and which she won’t go…

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Companion Grasses by Brian Teare: debunking the otherness of nature

Companion Grasses by Brian Teare: debunking the otherness of nature

April 7, 2013
l.j. moore
Book Review, Poetry, REVIEWS, WORK, NEW

“We live and love and die accompanied by grasses.” The above is a quote by Brian Teare from an interview with Rusty Morrison, on the…

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FIGHT SONG BY JOSHUA MOHR: laughing with empathy all the way home

FIGHT SONG BY JOSHUA MOHR: laughing with empathy all the way home

January 29, 2013
Charles Kruger
Book Review, NEWS, REVIEWS

Bob Coffen is having a tough time. So much so, he might as well be living in his own last name. He doesn’t get much…

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THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS BY BENJAMIN WOOD: the grand soloist, loss

THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS BY BENJAMIN WOOD: the grand soloist, loss

December 26, 2012
Evan Karp
Book Review, REVIEWS

The Bellwether Revivals is not about music, or murder, or even love, though all three are present: the music a repeating grace note trill, the…

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APE BY GUY KAWASAKI AND SHAWN WELSH: the new gold standard for self-publishing

APE BY GUY KAWASAKI AND SHAWN WELSH: the new gold standard for self-publishing

December 25, 2012
Evan Karp
Book Review, REVIEWS

I am nearing the completion of a non-fiction book, and have been trying to decide whether to once again look for an agent, or to…

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CARL MELCHER GOES TO VIETNAM BY PAUL CLAYTON: the redemptive power of stories

CARL MELCHER GOES TO VIETNAM BY PAUL CLAYTON: the redemptive power of stories

December 24, 2012
Evan Karp
Book Review, REVIEWS

When I first came to the US from the UK, where I grew up, in 1966, I was shocked that so many Americans still approved…

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SOUND BY T.M. WOLF: the music of the mind

SOUND BY T.M. WOLF: the music of the mind

December 7, 2012
Evan Karp
Book Review, REVIEWS

Sound is more of an experience than a story. It looks at moments in Cincy’s life multidimensionally, like a song. “Sound,” by T.M. Wolf, is the…

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PLUNGE BY ALICE JONES: shut up, self, i can't hear the truth

PLUNGE BY ALICE JONES: shut up, self, i can’t hear the truth

November 5, 2012
Evan Karp
Book Review, REVIEWS

First, this, from James Merrill‘s great poem “The Thousand and Second Night:” “Form’s what affirms.” If Merrill is right, then Alice Jones‘ Plunge (Apogee) is superlatively…

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EQUINOX BY EDWARD SMALLFIELD: composition through silence

EQUINOX BY EDWARD SMALLFIELD: composition through silence

October 16, 2012
Evan Karp
Book Review, I WOULD SAY, REVIEWS, Said Litseen

Edward Smallfield’s Equinox (Apogee, 89 pages) is a truly fascinating collection of poems that weaves together a traditional form with a highly conceptual process. That…

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