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
(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
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