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The Dog Stars
The Dog Stars is a novel by Peter Heller, © Knopf 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged apocalypse, apocalypse fiction, book review, contemporary fiction, death, fiction, friendship, homosocial space, killing, loneliness, loss, male space, men, novel, reality, ruthlessness, violence, women
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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
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American Appetites
American Appetites is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, © Harper & Row 1989
Posted in Book Review
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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You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake
You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake is a collection of poetry by Anna Moschovakis, © Coffee House Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged anna moschovakis, argument, book review, cantos, coffee house press, contemporary poetry, death, emmanuel levinas, essay, fragments, poetry, power, process, reading process, reality, scientology, thesis, violence, wittgenstein
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Review Review
This is a review of reviews. Happy New Year.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apocalypse, awkward, death, frames, knowledge, language, loneliness, power, supernatural, violence
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Memoirs of a Porcupine
Memoirs of a Porcupine is a novel by Alain Mabanckou and translated by Helen Stevenson, © Soft Skull Press 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged African literature, animals, book review, contemporary fiction, emotional weight, fiction, French African literature, guilt, novel, oral storytelling, pace, perspective, porcupine, responsibility, serial killer, supernatural, superstition, transcript, translation, violence
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The Wilding
The Wilding is a novel by Benjamin Percy, © Graywolf Press 2010
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Benjamin Percy, book review, books, coming of age, contemporary fiction, death, fantasy, fiction, grizzly bears, horror fiction, Little Red Riding Hood, masculinity, nature, novel, Ochoco Mountains, Oregon, power, power dynamics, supernatural, suspense fiction, violence, wild, wildness, woods
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Murder Ballad
Murder Ballad is a collection of poems by Jane Springer, © Alice James Books 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, contemporary poetry, Cormac McCarthy, death, fantasy, female perspective, Flannery O'Connor, ghosts, history, murder ballad, music, poetry, rape, recommendation, romanticism, southern Gothic, supernatural, the South, violence, William Faulkner, women
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