All posts by Evan Karp

April 19th, 2010

Evan Karp: The Last Book I Loved, We’re Getting On

Is this the apocalypse? Maybe. It could just be a personal problem.

James Kaelan’s We’re Getting On was the last book to remind me why I love books so much. A collection of 2 long and 2 short interconnected stories, this text challenges the very notion of progress by evaluating the roles of technology and imagination in a modern, ecologically unsustainable society. The vision is undaunted and as clear as skies must have been before the industrial age. …more

December 24th, 2009

Evan Karp: The Last Book I Loved, Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk

The last book I loved was Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk by Tony DuShane.

Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk is a triumph, not only for the adolescent Jehovah’s Witness whose voice grows like his first lone pubic hair into a riot but for anyone who has ever felt the spirit of any kind of community; it will remind anyone who has felt the urgings of the heart and stripped naked before love that the rest of the world is something to plunge into even despite the pain and hardship and injustice here. …more

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Evan Karp is the San Francisco Literary Culture Examiner. He is currently a contributing editor for Instant City and writer at The Chronicle and host of the reading series Quiet Lightning. Send tips, comments, or submissions to karpekarp@gmail.com.

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