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Kevin Thomas

Kevin Thomas was born in Southern California and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. His work has appeared in NOON, LA Review of Books, and Barrelhouse magazine and on OccupyWriters.com. His first book, a collection of the first three years of these strips, is available from OR Books. Sometimes he overshares on Twitter.

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Kevin Thomas

Mar 10, 2017

HORN! REVIEWS: Nova

As the musician says to the novelist, “I was born. I must die. I am suffering. Help me.”
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Kevin Thomas

Feb 17, 2017

HORN! REVIEWS: The Plot Against America

It’s as if Roth, in 2004, had inhaled a Delphic vapor to bring us this vision of an alternate then so eerily like our now.
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Kevin Thomas

Feb 3, 2017

HORN! REVIEWS: The Fire This Time

What will happen to all that beauty?
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Kevin Thomas

Jan 20, 2017

HORN! Reviews: Fahrenheit 451

Here’s a vision of a nightmare Benthamist future where nothing is allowed to be slow or sad…
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Kevin Thomas

Jan 6, 2017

HORN! REVIEWS: NW

This is an important work about the urgent need to hold on to your life and your morals at the same time.
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Kevin Thomas

Dec 23, 2016

HORN! REVIEWS: Camanchaca

HORN! Reviews brings us another beautiful illustrated review, this time of Diego Zúñiga’s Camanchaca, translated by Megan McDowell.
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Kevin Thomas

Dec 9, 2016

HORN! REVIEWS: The Long Walk

What started as an update of “The Lottery” for the Vietnam era is now a guidebook to a country that has obviated satire.
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Kevin Thomas

Nov 18, 2016

HORN! REVIEWS: The Wangs vs. the World

“Laugh and get depressed. Get depressed and laugh. What else was there to do?”
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Kevin Thomas

Oct 28, 2016

HORN! REVIEWS: The Trouble With Lexie

But we don’t always behave rationally; sometimes we let pheromones, Klonopin, and the Yahtzee gods decide for us.
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Kevin Thomas

Oct 14, 2016

HORN! REVIEWS: The Revolutionaries Try Again

Cardenas picks brilliantly at this scab—the tension between the call to service and the desire for more…
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Kevin Thomas

Sep 30, 2016

HORN! REVIEWS: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

This book is the product of twenty-three years of writing and running—6 miles a day, 6 days a week.
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Kevin Thomas

Sep 16, 2016

HORN! REVIEWS: Unbearable Splendor

Shin draws on cinema, technology, mythology, sci fi, autobiography, and folklore to unlock the titular emotion…