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Review of M Train by Patti Smith
Coffee-addict Patti Smith returns with another engrossing memoir-thing. She writes well about writing. I find my reading tastes lining up with hers. She conveys her burgeoning obsession with visiting writers’ graves in far-flung places, touching down in Japan and hunting down the resting place of Akutagawa, Dazai, Ozu and others.…
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Review of The Universe as Performance Art by Colby Smith
A collection of eccentric tales. The author has also released a novella and a nonfiction book. With this publication, he gathers a few pieces previously published in Neo-Decadent Anthologies, along with 14 previously unpublished stories. I think the best of the lot is “Hellenic Dropout.” This is probably not the…
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Review of Hotel World by Ali Smith
While I appreciate Ali Smith’s experimentation, I’m not a fan of the quotidian rhythm of her narrators. Whether they are waiting at the airport, or sitting around on their home computer, or flopping on the bed of a sleazy hotel room, I find myself waiting for something interesting to happen…
L. S. Popovich 