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CRITICAL APPRAISALS: RADICAL VOICES: CASCELLA, ROBERTSON, BROSSARD, Part 3

December 19, 2024December 14, 2024 driftlessareareview

Singed can be seen as a chimera and a rhizomatic desiring-machine. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: RADICAL VOICES: CASCELLA, ROBERTSON, BROSSARD, Part 3

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Espresso Shots: 404 Error: memoir of a nobody, by RG Vasicek & Zak Ferguson

October 22, 2023 driftlessareareview

The short novel shifts between comedy and horror, commentary and meta-commentary, wetware and meatspace. Continue reading Espresso Shots: 404 Error: memoir of a nobody, by RG Vasicek & Zak Ferguson

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Commonplace Book: 3 Random Passages from Richard Makin Novels

June 12, 2023June 10, 2023 driftlessareareview

Bendy words heaped into bulwarks. Continue reading Commonplace Book: 3 Random Passages from Richard Makin Novels

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CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part 1

June 4, 2023June 5, 2023 driftlessareareview

Richard Makin’s trilogy (Work, Dwelling, Mourning) represents a landmark achievement in (post)modern literature, one that avoids easy classification or explanation. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part 1

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Espresso Shots: Desert Tiles by Mike Corrao

April 16, 2023 driftlessareareview

Body horror collides with a kind of digital mysticism. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Desert Tiles by Mike Corrao

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Natural Complexions, by D. Harlan Wilson

July 11, 2021 driftlessareareview

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

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GlassHouse by Louis Armand

July 6, 2021July 5, 2021 driftlessareareview

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