Category: book reviews

  • more book reviews

    you can read my review of Denis Johnson’s “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” here and my review of Medbh McGuckian’s “Blaris Moor” here.

  • of year’s end & ‘best-ofs’

    It’s that time of year when everyone is publishing “best-of” and “top ten” and so on. For once I’m not either grading or writing final papers [oh…hello Dissertation] but I am “taking stock” a bit. So what have I accomplished, written, read, listened to, and seen this past year? January started with the death of…

  • book reviews

    I have some book reviews in the November Brooklyn Rail: Chris Kraus “After Kathy Acker” Laura Jane Grace w/Dan Ozzi – memoir More coming in the end of year double-issue.

  • some book reviews.

    So…I wrote some book reviews & The Brooklyn Rail decided to print them. You can also find them online here [Monica Drake], here [Chris Offutt], and here [Kristin Hersh, Kim Gordon, Carrie Brownstein].

  • review of “Belfast Noir” published in Irish America Magazine

    My review of “Belfast Noir” is in the current issue of Irish America Magazine. You can read it here: http://irishamerica.com/2014/12/review-of-books-44/

  • summer writing

    already it’s summer & we barely had spring…summers for me used to mean writing workshops but with the advent of graduate school, I’ve had to give all that up. still, I’m finding myself nostalgic for Tin House & altogether missing the glorious Pacific Northwest. On a completely different note, I have a review of John…