You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue is part historical novel (the reimagined meeting of Cortes and Montezuma) and part satire, presented in a hallucinatory …
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The Bee Sting by Paul Murray is a BFB – literally, being 643 pages, and metaphorically in the sense of how deeply the author takes …
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Poem-Mike Wilson, photo-Eric Muhr “Sonnet Psalm of a Sensitive Person,” appeared in Gyroscope
Continue ReadingBook Review, Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
Western Lane is a short debut novel by Chetna Maroo, winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction in 2022. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been …
Continue ReadingEvidence of Things Unseen, a poem…
Poem by Mike Wilson, photo by Bunny Wilson
Continue ReadingBook Review – Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House, by Katerina Stoykova
Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House is a collection of the poems of Lexington poet (and proprietor of Accents Publishing) Katerina Stoykova published …
Continue ReadingPneumonia, a poem….
Poem by Mike Wilson, photo by Zac Nielson
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Words by Mike Wilson, photo by Jen Theodore
Continue ReadingBook Review – Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch
Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch, narrates the breakdown of society under the rise of fascism from the point of view of a family resisting it. …
Continue ReadingSonnets….
A couple of Shakespearean sonnets of mine “Hold Me” and “The Secret” just published in in Grand Little Things.
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