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Fairleigh Dickinson University

The Lives of the Saints

A Review of My Two Worlds by Sergio Chejfec

September 18, 2014

Daniel Reid

Translated from the Spanish by Margaret B. Carson (Rochester, NY: Open Letter Books, 2011) Everyone knows that a good walk through the park is an enriching, calming experience perfect for airing some of that figurative dirty laundry. It’s a way … Continued

A Review of MITKO by Garth Greenwell

July 17, 2014

Kate Munning

(Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 2011) It seems unlikely that a novella with an opening scene involving anonymous sexual encounters between men would turn out to be a fluid, poetic internal monologue on some of the weightiest universal issues out … Continued

Tell Me

May 15, 2014

Adam Wilson

People from the halfway house come into the store. One guy in particular. I think his name is Richard. He never buys books. “I came in with this,” he says, raises a paperback like Moses with the commandments. Richard thinks … Continued

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