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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 …
Read MoreI know things that nobody else knows, not even me.
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 …
Read MoreOn William T. Love, Love Canal, and Model City. Originally published in Western New York Heritage Magazine, Winter 2022.
Read MoreI’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 …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read More[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 …
Read MoreHow 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 …
Read MoreOn the surprising conservatism of “progressive horror” [Originally published in Arc Digital, Feb 25, 2021. ] “Climate of the Hunter is an Atmospheric Slow-Burn that Skewers Patriarchal Hierarchies & Misogyny,” declares …
Read More[First published at http://vol1brooklyn.com/2021/02/26/fearless-and-loving-near-las-vegas-a-review-of-lisa-carvers-the-pahrump-report/] There is a moment in her new book The Pahrump Report, when Lisa Carver responds to a question about her occupation by answering: “I am a writer.” …
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