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Review of Kent Harufs’ Our Souls at Night
by Maggie Libby Davis For the last two years since my father passed, I’ve been looking for a sweet laid-back book for my mother as she simply doesn’t have the stomach for much drama, particularly of the heart-breaking variety. I came across Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf, his last novel published posthumously earlier… Read more
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Review of Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warning
by Tyler Beckett Neil Gaiman lets his novels take meandering paths, like the long road trips in American Gods, even as the stories move towards conflict and highly personal drama. The author’s wandering style lets him introduce many characters and topics, a generous approach that has contributed to my understanding the man primarily as a… Read more
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Review of Mary Karr’s Art of Memoir
by Emily Howell American poet, essayist and best-selling memoirist, Mary Karr, released a new book this September, The Art of Memoir. In it, she combines her expertise as both a professor and a writer and provides the reader with a look into the art of writing memoir. Each chapter begins with anecdotes from fellow writers’… Read more
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Review of Major Jackson’s Roll Deep
by Amanda Huynh In his fourth poetry collection, Major Jackson’s poems stretch from intimate urban settings to child soldiers at war in Kenya. His poems capture the essence of humanity, the minuscule to the grand, in vivid details. Jackson takes his reader across borders and shows us how distance does not mean difference, and how… Read more
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Review of You’re Making Me Hate You
by Kevin Norris Cory Taylor is frustrated and angry. One can see this by looking at the cover of his novel You’re Making Me Hate You. His teeth are grinding. His eyes are bulging. There’s a quote on the cover “A cantankerous look at the common misconception that humans have any common sense left.” His… Read more
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Review of Post Traumatic Church Syndrome
By Kevin Norris As I perused through the jackets of the new releases at my local Barnes and Nobel’s bookstore, I glanced over at a yellow covered hardback book. Its red, orange and green writing caught my eye. I looked down and read the title: Post Traumatic Church Syndrome. “What the heck is that?” I… Read more