NonBinary Review 8: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
All of the stories, poems and other literary works in Issue 8 of NonBinary Review are connected in some way to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. The first section…
On the Edge (Edward St. Aubyn)
Edward St. Aubyn’s 1998 novel rather recently got its U.S. release. I bought this book in Powell’s last year and just now got around to it. I have not read…
The Wisdom of Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton knows his way around the English language. He often makes it do silly things, purely for his own amusement. His Father Brown books, especially, have a sense of…
Leslie Feinburg’s Stone Butch Blues
This book was put onto a list given to me by a good friend and then put into my hands by that same friend. Stone Butch Blues is a gut…
NonBinary Review, publication, and a great deal on a lit mag
Issue 8 of NonBinary Review, which features my story "AlterMist" and draws its theme from Sun Tzu's The Art of War, just came out in Kindle Edition. If you are…
On White Guys Talking About Reading Women
http://jezebel.com/damn-youre-not-reading-any-books-by-white-men-this-yea-1751094468 I’m a white guy, and prone to getting unfortunately navel-gazey and introspective. I heard about this piece from Jezebel on the 3% Podcast (books in translation, check it out)…
Reading Animal Farm with eighth-graders
This particular re-reading of Orwell’s classic novel has been brought to you by my eighth grade English class, who picked Animal Farm over two other books, the names of which…
Gateway to Paradise Revisited, and Further Notes
I recently had a conversation with someone more familiar with this book than myself, and it brought up a few things that I didn’t really address -or that I addressed…
Matthew Vollmer’s Gateway to Paradise
This is the third book of Vollmer’s I’ve read, the most recent, and the one I’d be least likely to recommend. I loved “Inscriptions for Headstones” -it was a fantastically…
Book Fight!
https://bookfightpod.com/ Book Fight is a easily my favorite literary podcast out of the half-dozen or so that I listen to. I’ve mentioned them here before, but they are in the…