(Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2019) There’s rarely a time when one can write about a novel dealing with a mass shooting in the United States without one or more real-life incidents freshly in the news. The media narrative starts … Continued
(Ann Harbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2018) The Lost Country was published posthumously, ten years after author William Gay’s death. Fans of Gay’s work speculate when the text was composed, debating whether it fell toward the beginning or end of his … Continued
(Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2016) It’s not every book of short stories that feels like a book of poetry. Equally, it’s not every book that reads like a film. Enter John Domini’s Movieola!, a slim collection for those who … Continued
(Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2015) In his book Synchronicity (1952), Carl Jung tells the story of a young woman patient whose psychological inaccessibility proved to be both a frustration and challenge. Despite Jung’s best therapeutic efforts, this patient always … Continued
(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
(Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2015) Coming into my adult life in the post-9/11, bubble-and-burst epoch of my country’s history, I have formed some jumbled impressions of what precisely other people mean when they refer to ‘The American Dream.’ It … Continued