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Join NOW!Saturday 12/12: Diana Hamilton and Steve McCaffery join the Segue series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Many people read Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Housing Works, 1 p.m., free. Brian Matthew Kim, Ann Podracky, Jolie Hale, and Jason N. Fischedick join the Oh, Bernice! reading series. Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m., free. Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ailish […]
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Meghan Lamb reviews Last Mass by Jamie Iredell today in Rumpus Books.
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Brett Josef Grubisic reviews I WAS A FAT DRUNK CATHOLIC SCHOOL INSOMNIAC today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
...moreThe homes that line the blocks and house Castroville’s just-over-five-thousand-inhabitants cluster together like a raft that floats upon a green sea of artichokes.
...more[T]his is no Rand McNally; what makes the collection exciting is Iredell’s delicious sense of humor, his play with language and the dexterity with which he varies his voice.
...moreJamie Iredell weaves a drug-and-alcohol fueled journey out of brief, vivid bursts of language.
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