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A Review of Ventrakl by Christian Hawkey

October 17, 2016

Cassie Hay

(Brooklyn, NY: Ugling Duckling Presse, 2010) Berlin, July 30, 2010 The ticket-taker wears a black tuxedo with red silk cummerbund. He has a ruddy face and his body is round and broad like a bear. He tears our tickets gruffly, … Continued

A Review of The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris by Leïla Marouane

May 21, 2015

Deborah Hall

Translated from the French by Alison Anderson (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2010) I finished The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris, by Leїla Marouane, on a night when it was raining in Tallahassee, and the café where I had … Continued

Suffering Love: Three Memoirs Personalized

April 24, 2014

Jena Salon

Books Discussed: Bonnie J. Rough’s Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA (Counterpoint Press, 2010); Roland Barthes’s Mourning Diary, translated and with an Afterword by Richard Howard (Hill and Wang, 2012); Roger Rosenblatt’s, Making Toast (Ecco, 2010) It was six months, almost to the day, from … Continued

Literary Mothers: A Conversation & Book List

January 28, 2014

TLR: The Literary Review

JENNY OFFILL & CERIDWEN MORRIS   Discussions about motherhood are cluttered with logistics, dark nuances, and commiseration. They are frequently conducted under the punch-drunk fog of sleeplessness, grammar-addling distraction, and amazement. Discussions about creativity and motherhood are even more fraught—almost … Continued

The Curious Life and Mysterious Death of Peter J. Perry

September 17, 2013

Rebecca Wolff

At the end he was tilted that he might remain in sleep. If he woke he would know just how bad things were, would cough and dislodge the intubation tube. A certainty. Fluids in, fluids out. Tilted his head below … Continued

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