I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend is the latest collection of poems from Ron Koertge. The humor of the poems belies a deep poignancy …
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Dead-End Memories is a collection of stories by Banana Yoshimoto, originally published in 2003, and translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda in 2022. The …
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A Breeze is a Whirling Dream/The Guitar, a poem…
I waft into the backyard at 5 o’clock where a blind psychic senses me before I sense myself Her face pickles, her ire stinks …
Continue ReadingBook Review: Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
If Mary Karr and Charles Dickens had a baby in Appalachia, it would be Demon Copperhead, the latest novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It’s so good, …
Continue ReadingBattle of the Bands, a poem….
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Continue ReadingBook Review – Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These is a novella-length story by Irish writer Claire Keegan that, ultimately, is about the Magdalen laundries, run and financed by the …
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