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…
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…
Matthew Vollmer’s “Future Missionaries of America”
Future Missionaries of America Matthew Vollmer This was my favorite short story collection of 2016 (of meaning “read during”). Vollmer’s book “Inscriptions for Headstones” was high on my list in…
Djuna Barnes’ “Nightwood” and the virtues of reading good shit you don’t like
Nightwood T.S. Eliot said of Djuna Barnes’ 1936 novel “Nightwood” that “it is so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it”. There’s a poetic…
The Short Stories of Breece D’J Pancake
http://assets.uvamagazine.org/images/uploads/2015/Spring_2015/BreecePancake.jpg Breece D’J Pancake killed himself at 27. Whenever someone who evidences some kind of brilliance kills themselves (or merely meets an untimely end,) it seems difficult to separate the…
The Guardian’s “The Counted,” Police Brutality, and Big News Close to Home
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/01/the-county-kern-county-deadliest-police-killings British newspaper The Guardian has been running a series of reports into police violence in America, and as part of that project, they produced one of the best pieces…
Herta Müller’s “The Passport” -Kicking Off “50 in 16”
Herta Müller’s novel “The Passport” is my first entry in my big reading project the year (reading fifty novel-length works by women in 2016). I had read her short story…