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Join NOW!If Thomas McGrath were a painter, he would apply fat brushes to giant canvasses in complex color and texture. Gershwin’s gloss and the landscape of Copland are tame music compared to his. McGrath writes in the dissonance of Ives – American cacophony in contrasting threads of autobiography and cause, the red-white-and-blue Midwest against a vein […]
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When I read Richard Hugo’s “The Triggering Town” essay some years ago, I understood it intuitively and from my own experience of writing.
...moreThe title of this book, Tender at the Bone, is quite brilliant. As the chef’s description of a roast that is perfectly cooked, it gets to the junction of a memoir told by an author who is renowned for her expertise in the kitchen. The narrative pacing is deliberate and smart. It would after all be tiresome […]
...moreAndrew Holleran’s Grief is a beautifully written book that fulfills what one liner note promises, perhaps delivering the fictional version of what Joan Didion before him did in her non-fiction Year of Magical Thinking. I not only harkened back to Didion, but given my own relatively recent loss it was easy to parallel my experience of grief with […]
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