Posts filed under “Book Reviews”
Paul Constant Reviews CAConrad’s New Book
“CAConrad’s previous collection, The Book of Frank, with its miniature portraits of a poet torturing an ordinary man in dreadfully existential ways, is maybe the closest a book of poems can come to a novel. It perfectly explains the way an author both roots for and struggles to undermine his own creation, like a Saturday [...]
Interview: Tan Lin’s Metadata Writing
From Jacket 2: “I was interested in reading as a function of various and measured efficiencies. We think of reading in terms of what it gives us, i.e. content, but I was interested in speeds of reading regarded as information delivery. The title of the book is unwieldy and so an abbreviation, as you’ve noted, [...]
All About Races
The latest book by Seattle’s Oulipo-derived storyteller Doug Nufer, By Kelman Out of Pessoa, is a short and crisp novel about the soft, unspoken sides of gambling, the necessity of personality fragmentation, and the remarkable passivity of obscure diligence. The novel has its center at the Emerald Downs racetrack of Auburn, Washington, a city just [...]
A Review of Jimmy Lo’s A Reduction
Now up at the Hugo House blog. Visit to read things like this: Retreat is introspective, or can be if we step out of the worlds we feel we fit inside, within, as a part of, and harness the microscopic, embrace the little, small, minute, poignant. Lo’s text provides one portal, one passage. Among the [...]