Category: Reading

Calmed and healed: September book reviews

Writing these felt especially daunting this month. Nevertheless, these are the books I read in September, 2022—

Leave Society Cookbook (Forever Magazine Pocket Bible 2) by Tao Lin

This was a fun and funny supplement to Leave Society that I …

I’ll take a Tony Hoagland and a coke: August book reviews

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

Inferno by Eileen Myles

After listening to Myles’ appearance on 1storypod, I felt the poverty of my exposure reflected in my unfamiliarity with their work and asked Sean …

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 …