The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Dreams, vignettes, hypotheticals, and poetry lay out alternate versions of Western literature’s founding epic.
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Pedigree Pigeons
“It seemed like a pastime of a fairy-tale New York that had long since disappeared. But, with a little research, I realized a thriving community of pigeon-keepers still existed in…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #24
GOOGLE ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Google.
A Father’s Pain
“The act of verbally expressing pain is a necessary prelude to the collective task of diminishing pain.” – Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain Two weeks before Christmas of last…
Anywhere But L.A.
In stories that range through history, serendipity, speculation, whimsy, and horror, Daniel Olivas chronicles the lives of characters who have loved—and lost—Los Angeles.
FUNNY WOMEN #16: Project Runway
“Then you’ve got Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. He was handsome too and his eye patch debonair. He was in the German Army High Command, fought under Rommel and did lots…
The Rumpus Interview with Gary Young
“We write because we can’t not write. We want to make music out of our breath; we want to be under the power of an art that toys with us…
Slouching Towards Baltimore
Geoffrey Becker’s second novel races across the country in the company of “spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #14: Juice
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Juice Today the jury voted to “acquit” though the way the word leapt forth was the way a Southern gentleman…
Sexually, I’m More of a Denmark: A Highly Subjective Book Review
I’ve been trying to count how many times I’ve penned myself profiles for dating advertisements, and the truth is I can’t. Since my first major relationship ended in May of…
The Rising of the Ashes
What Jelloun proves throughout this book is that he has not let language(s) fail him or the people, places and historical moments he memorializes, making dates that are not headlines…