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A Tweetworthy Book Review: The Restricted Airspace of “Dreamland”
a book review inspired by twitter “Dreamland” by Phil Patton is a literary M.R.I. of a place, only 83 miles from Las Vegas that didn’t officially exist for a long time. The book explores the mystery...
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by Gabino Iglesias When Jimmie Vaughan introduced legendary bluesman BB King at his brother Stevie Ray Vaughan’s tribute concert, he said King was the man all electric blues guitarists want to sound...
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Review of ‘Growing Up Dead in Texas’
by Gabino Iglesias Without memory, we are nothing. In fact, you’re only reading this review because your memory did its job as an intrinsic element of your cognitive processes as a child and you...
View ArticleSex, Guns and Semiotics
A Review of DT Max‘s “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story” by Paul Jessup All biographies, all memoirs, all these kinds of books we slap with the label non-fiction and parade around as truth are mostly...
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Book Review: Notes from the Guts of a Hippo
While many authors need to take their narratives into different planets in order to infuse them with uniqueness and a sense of the extraordinary, Grant Wamack decided to explore a new possibility and...
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Book Review: “Our Story Begins” by Tobias Wolff
I’ve been hearing a lot about Tobias Wolff recently. After studying the Collected Works of Raymond Carver last year, I watched the Criterion Collection edition of Robert Altman’s film “Short Cuts”, a...
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Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up
In this sequel to I’m With the Band, we get a behind-the-scenes look into the life of the world’s most famous rock and roll groupie, Pamela Des Barres. In 1987, a book came out that had people...
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“Atmospheric Disturbances” by Rivka Galchen is a Delicious Off-Beat Yarn
“Atmospheric Disturbances” by Rivka Galchen is like a large white onion, many-layered and sharp, and makes one blink the eye rapidly—in wonderment, of course. Very simplistically, it is the story of a...
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Flipping Tibor Fischer
by Steven Partridge The end papers of Tibor Fischer’s new book take design inspiration from Greek pottery and the London Underground. The former prefixes a story about the Trojan War, the latter a...
View ArticleNakedness and Dry Humour, a review of Forster’s “A Room with a View”
The English have long been renowned for masking their feelings, hiding emotion behind rules of etiquette and dry humour, and, dare I say it, exuding a sort of coldness. Yes, us Brits have always had a...
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