Sunday, March 18, 2018
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden – Book Review Blurb
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden – Book Review Blurb: Denis Johnson’s last collection of short stories, published posthumously, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the crown for the dead king of writing about the addicted, the downtrodden, and those people who haunt the world while yet alive. Each story reminds me of the line Jim Morrison sang in …
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Devotion – Book Review Blurb
Devotion – Book Review Blurb: Legendary Punk-Poet-Memoirist Patti Smith’s slim book Devotion centers on the question of “Why I Write,” which is the subject of the annual Windham-Campbell lectures at Yale University. Because Smith can’t explain the why without the how she writes, she takes us on a journey to France on book business and …
Friday, March 2, 2018
Thoughts on an Interview – Nukde
Thoughts on an Interview – Nukde: I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Anastassia Goidina for her website NUKDE. Anastassia notes Nukde is a “Romanization for the Korean “늑대” (‘neug-dae’), meaning ‘wolf.’” I was immediately reminded of Kipling’s “For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is …
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Exit West – Book Review Blurb
Exit West – Book Review Blurb: Mohsin Hamid’s sentences in Exit West flow like a brightly colored fly line from a fishing rod’s guides in long iridescent and undulating curves and loops that feel breathless in the way a storyteller would tell a story with only minutes to deliver the message at the end of a …
Monday, February 19, 2018
This Isn’t a Dystopia, Yet: The Berlin Stories
This Isn’t a Dystopia, Yet: The Berlin Stories: With Nationalism and Fascism on the rise and, and actually taking power in the United States under the guise of conservatism, readers have been turning to classic dystopian novels such as 1984, Animal Farm, It Can’t Happen Here, or The Handmaid’s Tale, and these books rocked the best seller list …
Spy of the First Person – Book Review Blurb
Spy of the First Person – Book Review Blurb: In Sam Shepard’s posthumous novella, Spy of the First Person , we are the young observer or the observed dying old man confined to a mostly likely stolen rocking chair when at home or a wheelchair, whose reflections on his life, family, immigrants, medical treatment, and the people who have …
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