Buzzed Books
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Buzzed Books #31: Scouting for the Reaper
Buzzed Books #31 by Shawn Whittington Jacob M. Appel’s Scouting for the Reaper Jacob M. Appel’s recent collection of stories, Scouting for the Reaper, has all eight narratives threaded by one theme: the revelation of secrets in daily life to loved ones. More peculiarly, the revelations do not necessarily solve the conflicts within the tales… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #30: Chain Link Fence
Buzzed Books #30 by Amy Watkins Patti White’s Chain Link Fence Some reviewers have called Patti White’s Chain Link Fence (Anhinga Press, 2013) a “post-apocalyptic” book, and it does have that sort of imagery. Most of the short, numbered poems include disjointed lists of objects either broken or hauntingly out of context: “a washtub, Pick-up… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #29: And Sometimes I Wonder About You
Buzzed Books #29 by John King Walter Mosley’s And Sometimes I Wonder About You I am primarily a reader of literary fiction. It is where the joys and the fun of reading tend to be for me. Like many literary readers, I have a deep, complicated affection for hard-boiled detective fiction, à la Dashiel Hammett and… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #28: Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter
Buzzed Books by Rachel Kolman Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter Around 4 A.M. on a June night in 1991, a 22-year-old man—drunk, stoned—stumbled up to Florida’s capitol building. He wrapped a whiskey bottle in a towel and threw it at a glass door, which broke. No alarm sounded. Nothing. Wouldn’t you want to wander around inside,… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #27: Something Rich and Strange
Buzzed Books #27 by Dianne Turgeon-Richardson Something Rich and Strange This is less of a book review and more of a public service announcement: If you’re not reading Ron Rash, you should be. To put it simply and to risk using an already overused word, he is awesome. If you worry that you’re late to… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #26: Attempting Normal
Buzzed Books #26 by John King Attempting Normal I am an obsessive fan of things. Most culture feels blank to me, irrelevant, whether high-, low-, or middle-browed. But when I engage, some lifelong fixation is usually triggered. To be a fan of Tom Waits, for example, is not merely to have a preference, but rather to… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #25: Across a Green Ocean
Buzzed Books #25 by Leslie Salas Across a Green Ocean Across a Green Ocean, by Wendy Lee, presents the intertwined stories of an immigrant mother and her two children living in the suburbs of New York City. When Ling can’t get a hold of her son, Michael, she sends his older sister, Emily, to check… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #24: Collage of Seoul
Buzzed Books #24 by Amy Watkins Collage of Seoul by Jae Newman I should tell you upfront that Jae Newman is my friend. I don’t want you to read the glowing review I’m about to write about his first poetry collection, Collage of Seoul (Cascade Books, 2015) and later feel you were tricked by a… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #23: Einstein’s Beach House
Buzzed Books #23 by Rachel Kolman Einstein’s Beach House by Jacob M. Appel Einstein’s Beach House, Appel’s latest short story collection (and his third publication of 2014), is a quick, fun, clever read. Appel is a writer who knows how short stories work best. He knows how to hit all of the right notes and… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #22: We Take Me Apart
Buzzed Books #22 by Ashley Inguanta We Take Me Apart “In a different version it was not three beautiful maidens but Mother and you and me and in this version as in all versions happiness was her hoped for ever after then I came along and in this version happiness was her hoped for ever… Continue reading
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