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Author Archives: Jody Handerson

A Review of American Luthier by Quincy Whitney

April 17, 2017

Jody Handerson

(American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins,  the Art & Science of the Violin. Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge Press, 2016) In my first year of undergraduate work, I met a fellow arts student who was an extremely gifted sculptor and painter. As an unabashed … Continued

A Review of Because You Asked by Katrina Roberts

October 24, 2016

Jody Handerson

(Because You Asked: A Book of Answers on the Art & Craft of the Writing Life. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2015) I have a deep appreciation for writers. Our lives and talents are wildly diverse; we are poets, novelists, essayists, … Continued

A Review of Swimming by Karl Luntta

March 7, 2016

Jody Handerson

(Albany, NY: Excelsior Editions, 2015) A close friend of mine once compared reading good short stories to eating potato chips; you start with the best intention of eating a few delicious, salty, crunchy chips, and end up staring regretfully into … Continued

A Review of Alexandrian Summer by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren

September 3, 2015

Jody Handerson

Translated by Yardenne Greenspan (New York, NY: New Vessel Press, 2015) Alexandrian Summer is a novel where the vibrancy of small sins and the relentless toll of everyday unhappiness surrounds and transforms the characters; where nobility fails to lift lives above … Continued

A Review of Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations by Mónica Maristain

March 12, 2015

Jody Handerson

(Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2014) “I know that my name will resound in the ears of my loved ones as perfectly as a picture. And I also know that sometimes it will cease to Be a name And will be … Continued

A Review of Beneath the Neon Egg by Thomas E. Kennedy

August 17, 2014

Jody Handerson

(New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2014) The town where I live sits on the flanks of the Colorado Mountains, at the collective mouth of several rocky canyons. Last fall, eight days of steady rain filled the narrow streams that thread those … Continued

A Review of Running Through Beijing by Xu Zechen

May 29, 2014

Jody Handerson

Translation by Eric Abrahamsen. (San Francisco, CA: Two Lines Press, 2014) I was a taciturn and grubby child, a pint-sized pessimist that preferred the company of animals and solitude to that of my family and friends. If not on horseback, I ran everywhere … Continued

A Review of Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

February 2, 2014

Jody Handerson

(New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) If you had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this. He made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved … Continued

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