Literary
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Review of Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin
Hard living. Child rearing. Drug use. Wild desert landscapes. New Mexico, Paris, Mexico. Small town dramas, rocky relationships. Kids playing in dangerous locales. “Hillbillies.” “Gaunt” people. A young girl’s coming of age. Violent men. The tyranny of life without money. With her signature gorgeous prose, Berlin’s stories remain gloriously readable.…
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Review of A Conversation With an Errant God: Distorted Reflections on the Kerker-Kreis by Damian Murphy
I have written many other reviews on the majority of Murphy’s work. Each time I finish one of his stories or novellas I am slightly saddened by the fact that I have one fewer pieces of his left to encounter for the first time. This piece takes the form of…
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Review of Mneme’s Stoned by Luke Delin
After reading Orbo and the Godhead, I was overwhelmed by the fantastic fusion of ideas and subdued force of that novel. Where that novel was ecstatic and full-throttle, this novel was a quieter whirlwind. Mneme’s Stoned possesses many qualities of the previous work: absurdism, magical realism, drug use, mental illness,…
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Review of Eyes: Novellas and Stories by William H. Gass
Gass makes impressive use of language to describe the thoughts and feelings of inanimate objects. By exploring perspectives in this way, he is able to layer on a bunch of observations.It would appear that he holds plot and character development in contempt. Instead, he maneuvers the reader through a skewed…
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Good Ol’ Maggie, short story
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L. S. Popovich 