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An Interview With Donald Ray Pollock
Several years ago I was about to board a plane to Virginia where I was to explore the campus of a school that would teach me to become a mortician. It’s since become a joke in various places that ‘I’m...
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Needing Earl M. Rauch
I discovered Earl M. Rauch’s Dirty Pictures from the Prom on a miserable snowy day this January (2013). As is occasionally the case, I decided to spend said miserable snowy day inside as much...
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OUT OF NOTHING #[0]; Or, blurbing the whole cacophony
[out of nothing] #0: theoretical perspectives on the substance preceding [nothing] Ed. [out of nothing], October 2012 144 pages / $12 Buy from Amazon or Createspace When the opportunity...
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Grant Maierhofer’s SUMMER READS
Such Times by Christopher Coe I read Coe’s I Look Divine earlier this year after reading about his connection to the Lish workshops and deciding he seemed like my kind of writer. With his first book, I...
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5 Points: POOR ME I HATE ME PUNISH ME COME TO MY FUNERAL—- (by Grant...
“He saw her standing near the creek, near the road, near the stoplight. A stoplight looks bright red when your eyes haven’t seen sun for months. A stoplight looks like your best friend when the wind...
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Some Unscientific Thoughts on Depression
For whatever reason, I’ve always found precedents quite comforting. Either that, or they’re a nuisance. For instance, discovering the precedent of John Fante’s writing as something quite personal yet...
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Hill William by Scott McClanahan
Hill William by Scott McClanahan Tyrant Books, Nov 2013 200 pages / $14 Buy from Amazon There’s a moment in John Fante’s The Road to Los Angeles wherein his protagonist, Arturo Bandini,...
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Some Recently Acquired Reading Materials
Note: This is a small handful of books that I’ve either recently enjoyed or merely received in the mail, a more extensive review is probably in the works for a few of them, but for the moment I wanted...
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The Persistence of Crows
The Persistence of Crows by Grant Maierhofer Tiny TOE Press, 2013 173 pages / $12 Buy from The Open End Coming of age narratives are usually as riddled with tropes as low-budget horror...
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Mission Creek 2014: Art, Film, Music & Lit
*** Mission Creek 2014 and all its Art, Film, Music and Lit is almost upon us with Phillip Glass, Rachel Kushner, The Head and the Heart, Warpaint, Brian Evenson, etc. *** And this year HTMLGIANT will...
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