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Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, reviewed by Eric Kroczek

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

The most remarkable thing about Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland is that it was published four and a half years ago, before Barack Obama was elected president, before the Tea Party, before Occupy. Otherwise you might be forgiven for thinking that Perlstein … Continue reading →

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Book Review

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

Sloth by Mark Goldblatt (Greenpoint Press, 2010) reviewed by Duff Brenna Air the color of khaki, soot on windows prismed with sunlight, neon-skewed dust, the smell of engine fluid and pralines, steam rising from the hood of a truck, a … Continue reading →

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Small Press Review Series: One Last Good Time and the Literary Platypus

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

One Last Good Time Michael Kardos Press 53 (2010), 185 pages, $14.95 The trouble with interconnected story collections is that they are interconnected. I know, I know: the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club. … Continue reading →

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French Connection

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

Two recent novels by French-speaking authors blend close psychological analysis with free-flowing lyricism to tell deceptively simple love stories. One of those books, In the Train, by Christian Oster, was released by Object Press this year. Object Press, out of Toronto, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The End of the Circle, by Walter Cummins

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

BOOK REVIEW by DUFF BRENNA Walter Cummins has published more than one hundred short stories in venues such as Kansas Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Confrontation and many, many other journals and magazines. His fourth collection of stories, The End of … Continue reading →

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