BLOG UPDATE: END OF HIATUS, AN EXPLANATION
I have’t posted in six months. What gives? Continue reading BLOG UPDATE: END OF HIATUS, AN EXPLANATION
Category: books
Speculative Los Angeles, by Denise Hamilton @ nyjb
“Accessible, challenging, and fun by turns, Speculative Los Angeles possesses everything a fan could want.” Continue reading Speculative Los Angeles, by Denise Hamilton @ nyjb
Natural Complexions, by D. Harlan Wilson
Natural Complexions is a book that illuminates our addiction to social media, news cycles replete with violence and scandal, and the farcical idiocies of modern celebrities. Continue reading Natural Complexions, by D. Harlan Wilson
GlassHouse by Louis Armand
GlassHouse is a neo-noir phantasmorgia, Faulknerian and Lynchian by turns, written by a scholar of James Joyce and the avant-garde. Continue reading GlassHouse by Louis Armand
Espresso Shots: The Nicotine Chronicles, edited by Lee Child
Feed, by Tommy Pico @ NYJB
“Feed is a brilliant contemplation of love seen through the lenses of food, pop culture, and raw emotion.” Continue reading Feed, by Tommy Pico @ NYJB
The Complete Poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
What Dunbar managed to do involved capturing his unique human experience and expressing it in several different voices. Continue reading The Complete Poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Wednesday Poetry Corner: Junk by Tommy Pico @ NYJB
“Tommy Pico brings his unique personal perspective to this volume. He explores, once again, what it is to be Native American and gay in the United States at that weird moment in history prior to the pandemic.” Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: Junk by Tommy Pico @ NYJB
Reflections in Gold and Mud: Monstrosity, Agency, and Stability in Early Modern Europe
An essay exploring agency and identity of “freaks” in early modern Europe. Continue reading Reflections in Gold and Mud: Monstrosity, Agency, and Stability in Early Modern Europe
The Disorder of Things: Politics and The Printing Press in The Early Reformation (1517-1526)
Early modern Germany saw religious conflict weaponize the printing press. Continue reading The Disorder of Things: Politics and The Printing Press in The Early Reformation (1517-1526)
The Driftless Area Review 