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Author Archives: Jeff Knops

A Review of A Sky the Color of Chaos by M.J. Fièvre

May 9, 2016

Jeff Knops

(Orlando, FL: Beating Windward Press, 2015) In Heaven, everyone has his own sky.  Everyone knows what shapes the clouds make. Here, the sky is always the color of chaos. –  M.J. Fièvre M.J. Fièvre’s memoir, A Sky the Color of Chaos, … Continued

A Review of The City at Three P.M. by Peter LaSalle

December 21, 2015

Jeff Knops

(The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Travelling. Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2015) As a kid of the 70’s from a rural town in the upper Midwest, I dreamt of seeing the world. I used to mail-order foreign … Continued

A Review of Apollo in the Grass by Aleksandr Kushner

August 6, 2015

Jeff Knops

Translated from Russian by Carol Ueland and Robert Carnevale (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015) In 1989, I was a sophomore at a small Midwestern college.  My friends and roommates were largely apolitical and, if I am going to … Continued

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