Silverfish for Bookworms #1

Critic and essayist Sven Birkerts comments on what we lose in the page-to-screen transfer.
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Design and Dasein: Heidegger Against the Birkerts Argument

By Dan Piepenbring
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Brian Dettmer creates these extraordinary sculptures by amalgamating, modifying and mutating books

By Sebastian Mary
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Voices of the past, in shimmering new translations

By John Timpane
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France’s strange love affair with William Faulkner
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What Country Is This? Rereading LeRoi Jones’s The Dead Lecturer

By Adrienne Rich
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Book Of A Lifetime: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

Reviewed by T. C. Boyle
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The Dissembling Poet: Seamus Heaney and the Avant-garde

By Jeffrey Side
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Colm Toibin Reviews Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme

By Tracy Daugherty
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And so does David Thoreen:
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Why women read more than men

By Vanessa Thorpe
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Writing With the Devil

By Jennifer Schuessler
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The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers

By John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney
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3:AM Magazine Posts My Review of Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast

3:AM Magazine posts my review of Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast (Unfortunately, they changed my title from “An Uncalculated Blow to the Heart” to “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad.”)

You may find it on the front page HERE.

elimae Publishes My Fiction

When you get a chance, please check out my first published fiction at elimae. The online magazine is edited by Cooper Renner. It’s great to be in the company of Norman Lock, Michael Kimball, and others. Here’s a link:
“Something, Fathered In the Wastes, Wormed Within the Body” at elimae

And be sure to check out the other stories, poems, interviews, etc.

Bookslut Posts My Joseph Stroud Review Essay

Bookslut has just published my review of Joseph Stroud’s Of This World: New and Selected Poems. Unfortunately, they dropped my title: “Our Broken Machine at Last at Flow with the River.”

You may find it HERE