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by Wayne Koestenbaum UC Press, 2012 336 pages
It's no secret that scholarly books on cinema can be deadening, and any play-by-play of 13 movie comedies sanctioned by a university press might reasonably seem like one to avoid. Not so The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, from the poet and cultural critic [...]
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Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer Pantheon, 2012 240 pages
Last spring, an interviewer asked the British writer Geoff Dyer which movie he would choose to live inside. In retrospect that seems like a leading question; obviously Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker was the [...]
Continue Reading →Campbell McGrath, Shannon. Ecco/Harper Collins, 2009. $23.99
This long poem’s opening, spoken in the confiding, companionable first-person voice of a young man eager to stand out on Lewis & Clark’s team in the summer of 1804, rolls through unsettled American land near the Missouri river. Determined to prove himself, this youngest member of the Corps [...]
Continue Reading →By Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Books, 2009)
Through incredible energy and talent, Catherynne M. Valente has been steadily building a name for herself pretty much since the day she started publishing. Her two-book story cycle, The Orphan's Tales, was at one point perhaps her best-known work, nominated for several [...]
Continue Reading →Lois Tilton over at Locus magazine has posted a very nice review of Kentauros, our new book by Gregory Feeley. Here's just a little of what she has to say:
Every part of this work casts a light, provides a different insight. But these lights are all aimed in a single direction [...]
Continue Reading →By Emily Winslow (Delacorte Press, 2010)
For a while, I've been obsessed with what you could call the line of plausibility in fiction, and how it differs from the line of plausibility in nonfiction—or, for that matter, real life. There are coincidences that we accept in real life that we don't accept in fiction; somewhat [...]
Continue Reading →Treason. Poems by Hédi Kaddour. Translated by Marilyn Hacker. Yale University Press, 168 pp. 2010.
Hédi Kaddour writes a verse with clear antecedents in the meditative, ironical poems of Baudelaire and Verlaine. If that dates him a bit, so be it. Kaddour’s poems enchant with their ability to retain an intonation we immediately associate with [...]
Continue Reading →By Piotr Szewc, trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough (Dalkey Archive Press, 1999)
In what is perhaps the best use of jacket copy I've ever seen, we learn from the back of the book that this novella is about a day in the life of a Polish town in 1934, a few years before it is completely destroyed [...]
Continue Reading →One of the real pleasures in perusing writers’ meditations on the books they read is the occasional flash of real insight they offer because they have not hemmed themselves in by the standard views agreed upon by, say, literary scholars of a genre or literary tradition. That at least was my experience reading P.D. James’ [...]
Continue Reading →One of the abiding pleasures of writing books, and being lucky enough to have them published, is the way in which they have led me to discover parts of the literary world I may not have discovered otherwise. Among them is a brand of science fiction and fantasy that's been given all kinds of labels—my [...]
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