Commonplace Book: Karl Kraus and Charlie Hebdo
“Many people want to strike me dead. Others want to spend time chatting with me. The law protects me from the first group.” — Karl Kraus Continue reading Commonplace Book: Karl Kraus and Charlie Hebdo
Tag: religion
On Being Human Redux: Breakaway (Cassandra Kresnov, Book Two), by Joel Shepherd
Continuing with this week’s theme, I’ll be looking at Breakaway (Cassandra Kresnov, Book Two). The book follows fast on the heels of Crossover, where we are introduced Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial human and former super-soldier of The League. Continue reading On Being Human Redux: Breakaway (Cassandra Kresnov, Book Two), by Joel Shepherd
The Greatest Comeback, by Patrick J. Buchanan
Pat Buchanan wrote a new book. It’s about Nixon’s 1968 campaign for the presidency. Continue reading The Greatest Comeback, by Patrick J. Buchanan
Commonplace Book: “Death, be not proud …” by John Donne
A well known sonnet from John Donne. Continue reading Commonplace Book: “Death, be not proud …” by John Donne
CCLaP Fridays: Muscle Cars, by Stephen G. Eoannou
This week I review “Muscle Cars,” by Stephen G. Eoannou, a short story collection that follows the lives of inarticulate misfits in the Buffalo, NY area. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Muscle Cars, by Stephen G. Eoannou
An Epistemology of Flesh, by Daniel Klawitter
“An Epistemology of the Flesh,” by Daniel Klawitter, is a wonderful collection of poems simple and profound. Continue reading An Epistemology of Flesh, by Daniel Klawitter
CCLaP Fridays: By Way of Water, by Charlotte Gullick
This week I review “By Way of Water,” by Charlotte Gullick, about a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses living in timber country in the Seventies. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: By Way of Water, by Charlotte Gullick
Apocryphal by Lisa Marie Basile @ thethepoetryblog
Lisa Marie Basile’s “Apocryphal” exists in that Nabokovian twilight between childhood and adulthood. Between these realms one confronts monsters and the monolithic oppression of tradition. This is “Alice in Wonderland” re-imagined as a harrowing nightmare journey, a poodle-skirted damsel thrown into the jaws of a slavering beast, who may be the speaker’s father. What remains are fragments, memories, and fantasies strewn about or reconfigured. Continue reading Apocryphal by Lisa Marie Basile @ thethepoetryblog
Harold and Jack: The Remarkable Friendship of Prime Minister Macmillan and President Kennedy, by Christopher Sandford @ NYJB
In Harold and Jack: the Remarkable Friendship of Prime Minister MacMillan and President Kennedy, “Mr. Sandford expertly uses historical and archival material to make Kennedy’s and Macmillan’s Special Relationship come to life.” Continue reading Harold and Jack: The Remarkable Friendship of Prime Minister Macmillan and President Kennedy, by Christopher Sandford @ NYJB
Commonplace Book: Belize describes Heaven to Roy Cohn
A final hurray to MP Johnson Week with an excerpt from Angels in America, by Tony Kushner. The Characters BELIZE, a former drag queen and former lover of Prior’s. A registered nurse. Belize’s name was originally Norman Arriaga; Belize is a drag name that stuck. ROY M. COHN, a successful New York lawyer and unofficial power broker, now facing disbarment and dying of AIDS. ROY: Let me ask you something, sir. BELIZE: Sir? ROY: What’s it like? After? BELIZE: After …? ROY: The misery ends. BELIZE: Hell or Heaven? (Roy stares at Belize.) BELIZE: Like San Francisco. ROY: A city. … Continue reading Commonplace Book: Belize describes Heaven to Roy Cohn
The Driftless Area Review 