Buzzed Books
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Buzzed Books #91: Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Buzzed Books #91 by Chuck Cannini Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway A friend of mine paced in his living room one evening. Bill O’Reilly spoke to him from a television screen; something about a man named George Zimmerman, who had fatally shot African-American teenager Trayvon Martin. What mattered was how this friend of Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #90: Enchantée
Buzzed Books #90 by JD Langert Gita Trelease’s Enchantée Diving into the world of Gita Trelease’s Enchantée will bewitch you into wanting more, but fade over time like the magic of Camille’s dress. Set in Paris, 1789, on the brink of the French Revolution, the story follows Camille Durbonne as she tries to navigate a world Continue reading
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Buzzed Books 89: The World’s Desire (Ballantine 1977 edition)
Buzzed Books 89 by Mark Scroggins H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang’s The World’s Desire (Ballantine 1977 edition) The story behind this lurid paperback is fascinating, though not quite as fascinating as the book itself. In 1965, Ballantine Books issued a paperback edition of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, which had been published in hardcover Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #88: Olivia Laing’s Crudo
Buzzed Books #88 by Drew Barth Olivia Laing’s Crudo Identity is nebulous. Namely in how we perceive ourselves in terms of the work we create and how it is visible to others. In terms of Olivia Laing’s Crudo, her work with identity ties directly into the work and life of another author: Kathy Acker. We Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #87: The Lonesome Bodybuilder
Buzzed Books #87 by Drew Barth Yukiko Motoya’s The Lonesome Bodybuilder At times, there’s only so much a person can say about a collection of stories that moves them or a collection that so meshes with their own sense of what makes a strong story that it’s hard to not just post one of the Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #86: The Kiss
Buzzed Books #86 by Aurora Huiza The Kiss The Kiss: Intimacies From Writers is a lovely arrangement of vignettes, short stories, essays, and poems. Each is a quick, satisfying read. They all have to do with the act of kissing. More broadly, they are about intimacy. And if bountiful, rapturous show of affection is possible, Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #85: Permanent Exhibit
Buzzed Books #85 by Drew Barth Matthew Vollmer’s Permanent Exhibit Think of a thought process and all the ways it branches out and around. The thoughts rarely stay in one place or along one singular train of thought for too long. It’s that aspect of his own mind that Matthew Vollmer examines in Permanent Exhibit. Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #84: The Job of the Wasp
Buzzed Books #84 by Drew Barth Colin Winnette’s The Job of the Wasp We’re hard in the holiday Season so that means it’s time for ghosts. Slight horror around the holidays seems like a kind of tradition—from A Christmas Carol to Santa Jaws—so I had to maintain the spirit of spirits. This is where The Job Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #83: Rebekah Frumkin’s The Comedown
Buzzed Books #83 by Drew Barth Rebekah Frumkin’s The Comedown Ever since reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, I get excited when I see a family tree at the beginning of a novel. It’s the possibilities a family tree at the beginning signifies: a multi-generational tale so focused on the minutia of family issues and how Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #82: Flavor
Buzzed Books #82 by Drew Barth Joseph Keatinge and Wook Jin Clark’s Flavor Vol. 1 (Collects Issues 1-6) “Culinary consultant” may be my favorite thing I’ve seen in a comic credits page in a while. Seeing a culinary consultant, specifically Ali Bouzari, on a credits page in a comic that is about food in all Continue reading
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