The Rumpus Review of Make Way for Tomorrow
A Depression-era drama about bankruptcy and aging and the quiet moral failures of the petit bourgeois, Make Way for Tomorrow is the anti-Avatar.
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Burke Hilsabeck
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Burke Hilsabeck's work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and the halls of the University of Chicago, where he is a graduate student.
The Rumpus Review of For All Mankind
There’s a moment in For All Mankind when a couple of astronauts are wandering around the surface of the moon, collecting rock samples and staring in amazement at the black…
Burke Hilsabeck: The Last Book I Loved, Cruel Shoes
The last book I loved was Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin. Martin has always been interesting to me because of the way he teeters between hilarious and laughably unfunny. Take…