The title is an understatement: the real story told here is the story of the world, and how we live in it.
If Swensen brings us into contact with ghosts in Gravesend, it is by means of these subterranean poems concealed in the unconscious of their printed counterparts.
Growing Up Absurd – Paul Goodman
“Socialization to what?” is a radical question. But it’s also fairly easy to gloss over under certain social circumstances.
The Fifty Year Sword – Mark Danielewski
Once it has been established that our assumptions about reading are arbitrary, to keep issuing reminders without demonstrating how literature might be approached differently makes the effort seem like gimmickry.
For all his supposed nihilism and self-proclaimed untaggability, Eliot’s story is archetypal.
We witness a character endeavoring to recreate the past in the vast country of the present, knowing all along that it is futile. But why should futility be discouraging?
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City
It’s a bad time to be an Arizonan.
Three Strong Women – Marie NDiaye
NDiaye’s women are not strong due to their ability to overcome their trials or by doing something extraordinary.
Telegraph Avenue – Michael Chabon
Chabon can’t be separated from his aching nostalgia and whimsical tropes.
Ghost Dances – Josh Garrett-Davis
“Coming and going is the only thing native to the Plains,” Josh Garrett-Davis writes, which makes him a South Dakota native through-and-through.