Category: books
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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.
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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…
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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.
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of Halloween, endings & beginnings
Halloween is by far my favorite holiday although there’s a certain amount of melancholy that comes with it. Although I live in a city that embraces Halloween, many of the people in my life seem to see it as “just for kids.” It’s not. Nor should it be. While I don’t celebrate as much as…
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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].
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AWP, activism, loss, and ugly monsters.
This year’s AWP conference was in WDC and what with the current political climate & the crowds of deep-thinking humans attending, I had high hopes for “activist moments.” Perhaps there were some in the keynote(s) that I was too exhausted to attend or during something of the panels – too numerous to choose from. The…
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on AWP, poetry, and punk rock
This year’s AWP Conference was in L.A. (or Hell-LA as I used to call it). I haven’t been to LA in some years and I’m decidedly less gainfully employed (yet much more educated) than I was then. I don’t like LA despite the good people I know who live there). I don’t like a city…
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of residencies, “home,” and Cancer
Another December has come and gone and with it the anxieties and joys of travel, family, holiday traditions, and of course the annual (nightly?) “taking stock of my life” that I’m prone to. I finished up another semester of grad school with two final papers – one on the importance of Irish/Irish-American women in the…
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Of writing, trauma and photography
While I’m still slogging away at NaNoWriMo (and about now it DOES feel like a “slog”)…I’m also trying to get through the last of this semester’s course work and final papers, etc. As a Ph.D. student with more than one Master’s Degree behind me (I have 4 if you’re counting), I’ve learned to separate “emotional”…
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best of halloween-things
I meant to post these a few at a time over the past few weeks but as is often the case, life got in the way…So quickly and off the top of my head…Here are some of my favorite spooky reads: The Bloody Chamber/Angela Carter Dracula/Bram Stoker The Haunting of Hill House/Shirley Jackson Collected Ghost…
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