Looking for Love; A Utopian Legacy Turned Toxic
On William T. Love, Love Canal, and Model City. Originally published in Western New York Heritage Magazine, Winter 2022.
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The Troubled Maker: Transgressive Art, Public Shame, and Mike Tyson
In many ways, my personal experience with life after public shaming has gone exactly as one might expect: depressing, painful, and weird. Yet, at some point over the past three …
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Protected: Keeping Up with Carver; A Review of Lisa Carver’s No Land’s Man
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The Long and Short of it
I don’t normally think much about the uniqueness of the relationship that I’m in, because I’m in it. Then there are times when I’m walking down the street with my …
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My Review of the First 40 Pages of My Struggle
I’ve always been curious about this book, My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård. I was working in bookstores when the first book of this 2,700 page memoir of someone …
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Be sure to tell her I said hello.
I overheard a guy in a diner tell his friend that his wife was having difficulties: “…her joints flare up, she moans in her sleep, psoriasis, you know. She can …
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Ric Royer review of Jeff Schneider’s “Therapists Gone Wild”
[originally published on Vol. 1 Brooklyn, http://vol1brooklyn.com/2021/08/09/best-of-all-possible-worsts-a-review-of-jeff-schneiders-therapists-gone-wild/] There is nothing particularly wild about Jonathan Epstein, the main character in Jeff Schneider’s new book, Therapists Gone Wild. He’s hardly protagonist material: a sheepish, soft-spined …
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How to read poetry
How to read poetry: Buy a book of poetry from a poet everyone is talking about. Skim through the book if you want, or put it straight on your bookshelf …
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