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Author Archives: Katie Willingham
The Convalescent
The Convalescent is a novel by Jessica Anthony, © McSweeney’s Books 2010
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Tagged America, book review, butchering, butchers, change, communication, connection, contemporary fiction, destiny, fate, fiction, health, history, Hungarian, Hungarian history, immigrant American experience, immigrant experience, loneliness, meat, medication, midgets, mutes, novel, odd, pain, perspective, quirky, reality, transformation
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Woes of the True Policeman
Woes of the True Policeman is a novel by Roberto Bolaño and translated by Natasha Wimmer, © FSG 2012
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Tagged academia, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, novel, research, scholarship, south america, south american literature
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Sinners Welcome
Sinners Welcome is a collection of poetry (plus a bonus essay) by Mary Karr, © Harper Perennial 2006
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Tagged America, american themes, book review, Catholicism, childhood, contemporary poetry, conversion, God, grief, loss, love, pain, poetry, power, religion, retrospective, transformation, violence
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Autobiography of Us
Autobiography of Us is a novel by Aria Beth Sloss, © Henry Holt 2013
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Tagged America, book review, California, choice, contemporary fiction, debut, feminism, fiction, gender, gender revolution, loneliness, love, memory, perspective, retrospective, social causes, social revolution, women
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Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel by Ben Lerner, © Coffee House Press 2011
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Tagged abstract, American experience, art, authenticity, book review, boredom, contemporary fiction, contemporary novel, emotional weight, fiction, language, living abroad, loneliness, Madrid, novel, perspective, poetry, power, reality, Spain, translation, travel, urban space, writing process
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American Appetites
American Appetites is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, © Harper & Row 1989
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Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, court, death, domestic space, domestic violence, existentialism, fear, feast, fiction, loneliness, novel, perspective, power, power dynamics, relationships, violence
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Head Off & Split
Head Off & Split is a collection of poetry by Nikky Finney, © Northwestern University Press 2011
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Tagged America, american dream, american history, american themes, bodies, book review, contemporary poetry, domestic space, domesticity, feminism, knowledge, labor, national book award, nikky finney, poetry, power, retrospective, rosa parks, sonnet sequence, sonnets, urban space
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Stuff!
Thanks to everyone who has been active here in my absence. I’m having some technical difficulties that have delayed filming of my upcoming review of Nikky Finney’s collection Head Off & Split. Videos are trouble that way, but I think … Continue reading
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I’m here and you’re there!
Still traveling, sorry! I only got one awesome dude to guest post this round but wasn’t he great? If you haven’t watched David’s video yet, check it out! Also, if you’re interested in doing a guest video in the future, … Continue reading
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Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars is a work of nonfiction by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and translated by Lewis Galantiere, © Reynal & Hitchcock 1939
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Tagged airplanes, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, book review, classics, flight, French, French literature, philosophy, travel
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