How Literature Saved My Life, by David Shields. Knopf, 2013. $25.95, 224 pages.
David Shields opens his fantastic new work, How Literature Saved My Life, in a feint of over-sharing. But he does this to lure us into …
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Windeye
Windeye, by Brian Evenson. Coffee House Press, 2012. $16.00, 176 pages.
Young girls should not be vanishing into windows which, in turn, should not be vanishing from the broad sides of houses in midday. These things do not happen, …
Ways of Going Home
Ways of Going Home, by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. FSG, 2013. $23.00, 160 pages.
Alejandro Zambra’s much-anticipated third novel, Ways of Going Home, is a timely and intimate meditation on Chile. It is ambitious …
My Imaginary Cock Rests on a Cushion of Benjamins
Sprung, by Laura Madeline Wiseman. San Francisco Bay Press, 2012. $14.99, 100 pages.
Drug-free stamina impresses all genders and ages. Take, for example, Rocky Balboa preparing to box Ivan Drago. Using Siberian tool shed supplies, Rocky fulfills his cardio …
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams by Mark Dery. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. $24.95, 304 pages.
Legendary record producer and gun-toting misogynist Phil Spector never liked the LP. “Two hits and a …
Infinite Rest: On D.T. Max’s Biography of David Foster Wallace
A one-star Amazon review of D.T. Max’s new biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, lampoons the book as “SHALLOW.” Another one-star review accuses the book of being full of pointless factoids. But it …
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers, edited by Dinty W. Moore. Rose Metal Press, 2012.$15.95, 180 pages.
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing …
“What a small worlde the worlde of poetry is…”
A Question Mark Above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem “By” Frank O’Hara, by Kent Johnson, Starcherone Books, 2012.
Original Punch Press edition.
Kent Johnson’s A Question Mark Above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery …
