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A Critique of a Generation — A Review of Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible

A Children’s Bible reads like a modern-day Lord of the Flies. The book follows a band of teenagers who are left to their own devices as…

Oct 25, 2021

A Critique of a Generation — A Review of Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible

Oct 25, 2021

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“What we see changes according to what we look for” — A Review of E.J.

In this moving story of a complex mother-daughter relationship and abandonment, readers find crisp, clear writing that takes four…

Oct 14, 2021

“What we see changes according to what we look for” — A Review of E.J.

Oct 14, 2021

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“She was an ocean,” but a very small one: A Review of Giselle Beaumont’s On the Edge of Daylight

In the pantheon of seafaring literature, one maritime disaster never ceases to disinterest readers — that of the RMS Titanic. That being…

Oct 9, 2021

“She was an ocean,” but a very small one: A Review of Giselle Beaumont’s On the Edge of Daylight

Oct 9, 2021

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An Unhappy Girl in the Former Soviet Union: A Review of Katya Cengel’s From Chernobyl with Love

I have a confession: over one year ago, I began reading Katya Cengel’s From Chernobyl with Love, and I put it away two times before picking…

Sep 21, 2021

An Unhappy Girl in the Former Soviet Union: A Review of Katya Cengel’s From Chernobyl with Love

Sep 21, 2021

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Witches’ Dance: Variations on Feminism, Classical Music, and Toxic Masculinity

Erin Eileen Almond. Philadelphia: Lanternfish Press, 2019. 434 pages. $18 USD

Nov 12, 2020

Witches’ Dance: Variations on Feminism, Classical Music, and Toxic Masculinity

Nov 12, 2020

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“The forest sweats its leaves:” Reading Yelena Moskovich’s Virtuoso and Other Reflections about…

It is a wonder that I am here, in Iceland, in this country of volcanic rock and lunar-like landscapes. How did I gain enough merit to land…

Jul 21, 2020

“The forest sweats its leaves:” Reading Yelena Moskovich’s Virtuoso and Other Reflections about…

Jul 21, 2020

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Arms Reaching to the Bare: Social Consciousness in Ariel Francisco’s All My Heroes Are Broke

New York. Miami. Trains. Bars. James Wright. Po Chu-I. Poverty. While all of this may seem like a random list of places, objects, states…

Jul 18, 2020

Arms Reaching to the Bare: Social Consciousness in Ariel Francisco’s All My Heroes Are Broke

Jul 18, 2020

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Peaceful and Private: Notes from an Abandoned Iceland

The plane landed in Reykjavik 15 minutes ahead of schedule at 5:45 AM on Friday, 10 July 2020. The Icelandair flight attendants began…

Jul 12, 2020

Peaceful and Private: Notes from an Abandoned Iceland

Jul 12, 2020

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Nirvana, Nostalgia, and Glorious Celebration of the Self: A Brief Reflection about Aimee Herman’s…

Like The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the epistolary-styled Everything Grows centers on that deadly trap known as adolescence, a brief…

Jul 2, 2020

Nirvana, Nostalgia, and Glorious Celebration of the Self: A Brief Reflection about Aimee Herman’s…

Jul 2, 2020

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Pandemic Reads: Books for Quarantine Season, Part 2

In a bar in Morgantown, WV, I took the picture above a couple of years ago at a July WVU Writers Workshop gathering. Back then, we could…

Jun 25, 2020

Pandemic Reads: Books for Quarantine Season, Part 2

Jun 25, 2020

The Book Bat’s Cave

The Book Bat’s Cave

Ukrainian-American poet, essayist, professor; co-director @pierglasspoetry; book reviewer; twitter:@NYurtsaba

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