A Review of Bruce Meyer's Toast Soldiers
Inside every writer, there is a child screaming to be heard as innocence slips through her/his blood-stained fingers.
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- Jun 10
- 20 min
Arias of Consolation: An Interview with John Liddy
In this interview, John talks about the coming into being of his new book of poetry, Arias of Consolation.
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- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
A Review of Jhilam Chattaraj's Collection of Poems "Noise Cancellation"
In present times, where “the new normal” is changing drastically, the poems are a welcoming read.
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
A Review of Shin Yu Pai's Collection of Poems Virga
It is a comforting, meditative and spiritual book that offers some semblance of solace in these harrowing times.
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- Oct 4, 2021
- 5 min
Staring Outwards in All the Directions: A Review on Michelle Cahill’s Poetry Collection Vishvarupa
Cahill’s rendition of Vishvarupa not only looks out into the world, but ambits, and from that sojourn creates something unlimited...
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- Sep 27, 2021
- 3 min
A Review of Sanjeev Sethi’s Hesitancies
Sethi shows us the uses of poetry; He also moulds his craft to articulate the wise, rare yet universal verities of life.
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- Sep 23, 2021
- 17 min
Lonely Ghosts: Absence as Somethingness in the Works of Viet Thanh Nguyen
To see oneself only as a victim simplifies power and excuses the victim from the obligations of ethical behavior in politics, warfare...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 5 min
An Interview with Isabel Allende
Stories are like seeds. I carry them in my belly and some start to grow inside until I absolutely have to let them out.
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- Sep 8, 2021
- 8 min
The Practice of Writing Narrative History: An Interview with Matthew Goodman
With narrative history you’re telling a true story, same as with any other kind of history.
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- Aug 21, 2021
- 6 min
Blurring the Line between Fiction and Reality: On Andrew Palmer’s The Bachelor
You’re willing to go with Palmer’s narrator on his existential quest, and entertain his lofty meta-critiques on contemporary culture.
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- Jul 4, 2021
- 5 min
The English Professor Who Linked Literature to World Politics
Brennan is convincing in his rendering of a self-critical intellectual who opened the world’s mind to the impact of language and art.
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- Jun 16, 2021
- 13 min
Spinning: An Interview with Meg Pokrass
In this interview, Meg and Tony talk about the evolution of flash, micro, the craft of fiction, and Meg's new collection, Spinning to Mars.
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- Jun 6, 2021
- 5 min
Prologue to Someone's Always Watching You
It must be said from the outset that Mac Aogáin’s writing is beyond classification.
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- May 8, 2021
- 6 min
Oh, Yes it Will
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America brings us to now, the intersectionality of the historical and present.
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- May 5, 2021
- 5 min
Double Chiaroscuro: A Review of Balzac’s Lives by Peter Brooks
Double Chiaroscuro: A Review of Balzac’s Lives by Peter Brooks
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- Apr 4, 2021
- 6 min
A Guide and an Almanac
by John Liddy Kieran Beville opens his book with the appropriate chapter heading, “Making a Start,” and some advice from Stephen King:...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 10 min
SO WILL THE SCRIBES
by Nicolas D. Sampson Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke (Bantam Classics, 1988) ‘But I counsel...
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Nina (Xinqi) Zhang
- Mar 23, 2021
- 8 min
EZRA POUND AND DESMOND O’ GRADY
by John Liddy Much has been written by eminent critics on Ezra Pound’s relationship with William Butler Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel...
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- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
A Candle for Her Lake-staring Mother
by John Liddy Zephyr by Mary Mullen (Salmon Poetry, 2010) On first browsing through these poems with my customary “getting to know you”...
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- Mar 14, 2021
- 4 min
Instead of a Review a Tribute to Mark Whelan
by John Liddy The Sear of Wounds by Mark Whelan (Doghouse, 2012) In my copy of Mark’s last published book, The Sear of Wounds, he wrote a...
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