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Review of The Appearance of Death to a Hindu Woman by Rick Harsch
This is the 2nd book set in India Rick Harsch wrote, and after finishing it, I am eager to read the other one, called Arjun and the Good Snake. This is a story of an American making his way from Madras to Calcutta and journeying through surrounding areas, mostly on…
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Review of Kramberger with Monkey by Rick Harsch
A rollicking satirical, experimental novel about assassination, serialized in the online publication The Collidescope, featuring taboo-trouncing, grimly ravenous characters, a melange of lyrical and journalistic styles. Superbly literary, lasciviously hilarious, Rabelaisian, and a gravitas-inducing addition to Rick Harsch’s vastly underappreciated body of work. Read all of his novels. Voice and…
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Review of The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas by Rick Harsch
If this book had been published in 1960, we would all know about it by now. “Manifold Destiny” would be a catch-phrase justification for our monstropolis steamroller of a country. Combining an astonishing range of styles, a magisterial voice, operatic reverence, elegant tone variance, and predominantly satirical, cynical, jaded, darkly…
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