Image Credit: Patrick Moreau Regina Spektor lyrics from the song “Bon idée” in SONGS. In my basement bedroom in my semi-rural, semi-arid hometown, I lie in bed all…
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As someone who has written about Gabriel Blackwell’s work before, I feel oddly unqualified to discuss his latest, and perhaps most accomplished, book, Madeleine E. (Outpost 19). Few writers are…
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It may not be evident from the questions posed below, much less whatever line they may be drawing, sinking, etc., but Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014)…
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“Short stories are gems. Novels, however,” according to one of my favorite creative writing teachers, “are big bags.” Mike Heppner’s work both affirms and challenges this judgement. For while Mike’s…
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I owe what I know—and that appeals to me as only a little, still—of John Trefry’s novel Plats (Inside the Castle, 2014) courtesy of Michel Butor. Not that either John…
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This is the first in what I hope will be a series of not-so-erudite essays that will, for the most part, feel like listening to a drunkard talk to himself…