Kevin Thomas, Author at The Rumpus

HORN! REVIEWS: Nova

As the musician says to the novelist, "I was born. I must die. I am suffering. Help me."

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.

What will happen to all that beauty?

Here's a vision of a nightmare Benthamist future where nothing is allowed to be slow or sad...

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

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

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

"Laugh and get depressed. Get depressed and laugh. What else was there to do?"

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

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

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

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