Category: Reading

Showing you everything: July book reviews

These are the books I read in the month of July, 2022—

College Novel by Blake Middleton

I thought An Actual Person in a Concrete Historical Situation was great so I figured I’d work my way back. I bet people …

Lament of a broken brain: June book reviews

These are the books I read in the month of June, 2022—

Duplex by Mike Nagel

I picked this up because of Mike’s podcast conversation with Graham Irvin in which Graham says that his book Liver Mush and Duplex are …

Finding the Dog Dead

Lodged in the “Parables” section of David Shields’ and Elizabeth Cooperman’s anthology Life is Short — Art is Shorter, “The School” is cited as “articulating [Donald Barthelme’s] entire vision of the world.” The categorization is justified on the grounds …

Inattention Versus the Ant

The first time I read Stuart Dybek’s “Ant” from Ecstatic Cahoots, I failed to perceive its motion. Even primed for the fantastical (though not trained to expect it unfailingly by the collection it’s in), the story opened …