a funny, entertaining, and story-rich book
High in the Streets by Matthew Binder Roundfire Books ($14.95) James Wood wrote that Chekhov understood life to be “a tree of separate...
warmth and warble and hiss of memory
Think I'll compile all my memories onto cassette tape, yessir yessir. Think I'll cart all my old tapes out and put a big magnet to 'em....
sociopolitical musings, in list form
chapter headings for obama’s presidential memoir: I Couldn’t Stop Laughing When He Picked Palin (And That Ryan Guy Wasn’t Much Better)...
blackfly poetics
Vermont Exit Ramps II Neil Shepard (poems) & Anthony Reczek (photographs) Green Writers Press ($24.95) Hominid Up Neil Shepard Salmon...
q&a: richard thomas discusses his next project, gamut.
Soon after I read Richard Thomas's Staring into The Abyss and became a little more afraid of human beings, I was thrilled to find a story...
we steal home
I return to the ballpark back home every Thanksgiving, well after the sharp pop of cracking bats has flown south with the Canada geese. ...
an unobstructed view
home of the brave When my family moved to Miami in 1957, it was a sleepy town. Like many northerners, we took a while to get used to the...
sociopolitical musings, in list form
party themes for that liberal/conservative mixer you’ve been thinking of hosting: Lines in the Sand Periodic Comments on Religion,...
wrong epics in a godless time
The Ruined Elegance By Fiona Sze-Lorrain Princeton University Press ($14.95) Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s newest collection, The Ruined Elegance,...
does god care who wins the super bowl?
A Smattering of FAQS From OMG.god First Things First, Does God Exist? Who wants to know? JK. See next question. I Want to Impress My...