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Winter Journal
Winter Journal is a memoir by Paul Auster, © Henry Holt 2012
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged body, book review, contemporary memoir, gender, loneliness, love, memoir, new york city, pain, perspective, physical experience, physical space, second person
2 Comments
Sinners Welcome
Sinners Welcome is a collection of poetry (plus a bonus essay) by Mary Karr, © Harper Perennial 2006
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, american themes, book review, Catholicism, childhood, contemporary poetry, conversion, God, grief, loss, love, pain, poetry, power, religion, retrospective, transformation, violence
1 Comment
Autobiography of Us
Autobiography of Us is a novel by Aria Beth Sloss, © Henry Holt 2013
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, book review, California, choice, contemporary fiction, debut, feminism, fiction, gender, gender revolution, loneliness, love, memory, perspective, retrospective, social causes, social revolution, women
2 Comments
Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior is a novel by Barbara Kingsolver, © HarperCollins 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged adaptation, adultery, American south, book review, Christianity, contemporary fiction, culture, emotional weight, feminism, fiction, global warming, knowledge, loneliness, love, marriage, miracle, novel, perspective, power, reality, religion, southern culture, supernatural, women, women's issues
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Bewilderment
Bewilderment is a collection of poems and translations by David Ferry, © University of Chicago Press 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, classics, confusion, contemporary poetry, death, form, grammar, knowledge, loneliness, loss, love, mythology, national book award, pain, poetry, potential, reading process, supernatural, translations
2 Comments
The New Clean
The New Clean is a collection of poems by Jon Sands, © Write Bloody 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged age, aging, book review, childhood, contemporary poetry, growing up, love, new york city, New York subway, poetry, regression, slam poetry, spoken word, time, trains, transportation
6 Comments
1Q84
1Q84 is a novel by Haruki Murakami and translated by Jay Rubin (Books 1 & 2) and Philip Gabriel (Book 3), © Knopf 2011
Love, an Index
Love, an Index is a collection of poetry by Rebecca Lindenberg, © McSweeney’s 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, contemporary poetry, death, debut, loneliness, loss, love, memory, poetry, reading process, retrospective, travel
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