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The Lost Novel: On Kerouac's "The Sea Is My Brother"
"The primordial scribblings preserved in 'The Sea is My Brother' offer us the fantasy of an unmediated encounter with Kerouac."
Merve EmreMay 17, 2012
Growing Down
"Silverstein communicates his concern for his readers on every page."
Mike Sonksen a.k.a. Mike the PoetMay 17, 2012
Golden Filth: Ed Sanders's "Fug You"
"Girls peel their lip skin off with razor blades while people fight over pots of glue, and blood from hypodermic needles squirts everywhere."
Byron ColeyMay 15, 2012
Words That Kill: Kawamata Chiaki’s “Death Sentences”
D. Harlan WilsonMay 14, 2012
The Love That Dared to Write Its Name
"1948 was a sort of annus 'mahr-velous,' if not mirabilis, for public discussion of homosexuality."
Stan PerskyMay 13, 2012
Picaresque Homage: Terese Svoboda's "Bohemian Girl"
"This is a novel populated by characters dwelling in ambiguity, determined to avoid clarification."
Tobias CarrollMay 12, 2012
Paranormal Activity
"'The Vanishers' is not a story of happy girliness, and its hue is certainly not pink ... The cover... should probably be pitch black."
Buzzy JacksonMay 11, 2012
Magical Mash-up
Nnedi OkoraforMay 9, 2012
Designed for Impact
From "Vertigo" to the Dixie cup.
Lyra KilstonMay 8, 2012
J. Edgar
Tyrant in a tutu.
Jon WienerMay 8, 2012
An Antic Satire of the Dubya Years
Trapped by the aptness of his metaphor.
Michael BourneMay 8, 2012
Mail Bonding
The uncanny feat of digging a tunnel from one creative unconscious to the other.
Mark DeryMay 7, 2012
Knowing It Has to End
Noir's rap is bleak, nihilistic, hardbitten. But at heart it's a deeply emotional genre and a deeply nostalgic one.
Boris Dralyuk, Megan AbbottMay 7, 2012
- Noir
Invisibility Act
Susan Salter ReynoldsMay 6, 2012
Only the Good
Susan Salter ReynoldsMay 6, 2012
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Postscript
Susan Salter ReynoldsMay 6, 2012
- Fiction