Tag: reviews

• Showing My Work

  Apr 24

  It began with a podcast. Specifically, an episode of Reading Writers in which guest Nicholas Russell discussed several authors of uncanny fiction whose work he admired. One of them was… more ›

• Looking for Stories, Finding Something New

  Apr 8

  I can’t say precisely why, but I’ve been on a short story collection kick lately. Maybe it’s been Aaron Burch’s story-centric newsletter; maybe it’s because I’m looking to write more… more ›

• Quick Thoughts on a Jazz Trio (of Books)

  Mar 9

  I’m back from this year’s AWP, which was an excellent time. And I have brief thoughts on three books with one big element in common. William Melvin Kelley, A Drop… more ›

• Watching “A Cure for Wellness” With Politics on the Brain

  Mar 5

  A few weeks ago I ventured out to a local multiplex and watched the Gore Verbinski-directed Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. I liked it a lot – possibly more… more ›

• How’d We Get to the End of the World?

  Aug 4

  Sometimes, by complete coincidence, you end up watching two different movies set after the end of the world. Sometimes those two movies, though stylistically very different, are weirdly complementary. And… more ›

• A Digression I’m almost certainly cutting from a review of Tara Isabella Burton’s “Here in Avalon”

  Nov 29

  As the subject suggests: (Digression: Caleb is the worst. There’s an Achewood strip from 2003 wherein one character describes himself as follows: “I feel like I should be in some… more ›