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Anthony Wallace

Book Interview: Christopher Ricks on “The Poems of T.S. Eliot, The Annotated Text.”

Editors Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue are not trying to teach us how to read the poems.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Christopher Ricks, Jim McCue, Johns Hopkins University Press, T.S. Eliot, The Poems of T. S. Eliot The Annotated Text, The Waste Land

Theater Review: A Second Look at the “Confederacy”

The humor of Toole’s novel, its enjoyment of puncturing surfaces and pretensions, has been reduced to punch-line humor and one-liners.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Confederacy of Dunces, David Esbjornson, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Jeffrey Hatcher, John Kennedy Toole, Nick Offerman

Film Review: The Amy Winehouse Documentary — Hagiography in the Age of Reality TV

Amy Winehouse’s death was certainly a tragedy, but not one that moves us to pity and terror in its retelling as a morality tale spun from home movies.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Amy, Amy Winehouse, Asif Kapadia, documentary

Book Review: Miranda July’s “The First Bad Man” — Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

Miranda July’s originality of vision rests on an acute (and astute) awareness of the cosmic and the quotidian.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Miranda July, No one belongs here more than you., The First Bad Man

Book Review: Donald Antrim’s “The Emerald Light in the Air” — Unabashedly Gorgeous

The Emerald Light in the Air is important reading for those interested in the state of the American short story, or of American fiction in general.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American fiction, Anthony Wallace, Donald Antrim, New-Yorker, Raymond Carver, short stories, The Emerald Light in the Air

Book News: “The Old Priest” — A Finalist for the 2014 PEN/Hemingway Award

Arts Fuse writer Anthony Wallace talks about the latest accolade for his short story collection “The Old Priest” — it was a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Hemingway Award.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Fuse News Tagged: Anthony Wallace, PEN/Hemingway Award, Roberta Silman, The Old Priest

Visual Arts Commentary: In a Room with Rothko

The Arts Fuse is pleased to announce that “In a Room With Rothko,” by Anthony Wallace, posted last year, was awarded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize XXXVIII Best of the Small Presses (Norton & Co, 2013).

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Honorable Mention, John Logan, Mark Rothko, Pushcart Prize, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Theater Now

Jazz CD Review: A Song Cycle “For Langston”

For Langston fails on its own terms, which is to produce a moving, insightful, and in some sense accurate interpretation of the poetry of Langston Hughes.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Featured, Music Tagged: For Langston, Jazz, Ken Hatfield, Langston Hughes

Book Review: Denis Johnson’s Plays in Verse — The Art of Talking with the Devil

One answer to the question of “Why two plays in verse?” might be that Denis Johnson is a writer relentlessly in pursuit of new forms, and new formal challenges—a literary daredevil always looking for a new vehicle to take for a thrill ride.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Denis Johnson, Purvis, Soul of a Whore, Train Dreams, Tree of Smoke, Two Plays in Verse

Book Review: An Admirable Look at the Art of Robert Frost

THE ART OF ROBERT FROST helped me get closer to the poems and in doing so helped me get closer to the poet.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Robert Frost, The Art of Robert Frost, Tim Kendall, Yale-University-Press

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