Well-Traveled Verse: The Book of Poems You’ll Find Everywhere in India
Indian bookstores come in wide varieties: street-sellers pitch copies of everything from tabloids to Freud, more upscale boutiques feature plastic-wrapped paperbacks in scholarly fields, and...
View ArticleInclusivity & Authorship: Second-Person Pronouns
Used poorly, second-person reads like a trope; used well, second-person as a narrative device adds inclusivity to literature, raises questions of authorship, and helps an author communicate...
View ArticleReview: THE WAKE by Paul Kingsnorth
The Wake Paul Kingsnorth Graywolf, Sept 2015 365pp, $16 Buy: paperback Much has been made of Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake, crowdfunded to publication in England last spring and longlisted for the Man...
View Article“Ghosts Usually Accompany Me through My Poems”: An Interview with Diane Seuss
Words just seem to have more possibilities in the poems of Diane Seuss. They become more flexible, more magnetic, attracting and accumulating meaning and music in a speedy rush to surprise, a hard-won...
View ArticleOn the Art of Perspective: Christopher Castellani & Maggie Nelson
“I want to tell you what happened on the way to dinner.” Christopher Castellani‘s The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story begins with that simple phrase, the driving force of storytelling: the...
View ArticleOn Intimacy: Elena Ferrante & Stacey D’Erasmo
Elena Ferrante’s novels are often dubbed “intimate.” Meghan O’Rourke writes in The Guardian, “As fiction, they are both deeply realist and surprisingly intimate.” The LA Times notes that one novel in...
View ArticleThe Internet in Literature: Sven Birkerts, Jennifer Egan, Chuck Klosterman,...
Kurt Vonnegut, in A Man Without a Country (as quoted by Chuck Klosterman), writes, “I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by...
View ArticleImagining the Anthropocene: Danez Smith’s “summer, somewhere”
In 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the term “Anthropocene” to describe the geologic epoch during which human activity (primarily, the burning of fossil fuels) has significantly altered...
View ArticleQuiet Behind the Waterfall
Percival Everett is the author of around thirty books and his subject matters and genres range across a giant gamut. He has published novels, poetry collections, and short story collections. The most...
View ArticleA Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
A Lucky Man Jamel Brinkley Graywolf Press | May 1, 2018 Amazon| Powell’s There’s something magical about a great story collection. The stories bump up against each other and speak to each other, as...
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