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 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
“I don’t wanna live forever!!!” Continue reading TOP THREE: BANGERS: NUMBER 1: “Ace of Spades,” by Motörhead
Personal, subjective rankings with a short commentary. (KEΦAΛHΞΘ aka) Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs Sire (1992) I must have discovered “Jesus Built My Hotrod” via the Butthole Surfers. In this propulsive, maniacal banger … Continue reading TOP THREE: BANGERS: NUMBER 2: “Jesus Built My Hotrod,” by Ministry
My third favorite banger of a song. Continue reading TOP THREE: BANGERS: NUMBER 3: “Everlasting Gaze,” by the Smashing Pumpkins
“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
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
“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
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
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