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Vincent Czyz

Book Review: “The Archeology of a Good Ragù” — A “Bipolar” Memoir

Rather than the usual story of assimilation, John Domini gives us a deftly written narrative of return, self-discovery, disillusionment, personal metamorphosis, and ultimately, rejection.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: John Domini, The Archaeology of a Good Ragu

Book Review: “Punch Me Up to the Gods” — Stories That Need to be Told

A stunning indictment of homophobia, racism, and toxic masculinity, particularly among African Americans, Punch Me Up to the Gods holds a mirror up to America, a mirror before which many of us will not want to linger.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Brian Broome, Punch Me up to the Gods

Book Review: Samuel R. Delany’s “Dhalgren” — A Critical War of Words

The jury’s in. The critics who agreed with an early assessment that 1975’s Dhalgren is a “literary landmark” get to touch champagne flutes and congratulate one another.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Bill Wood, Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany, Vincent Czyz, Wilder Publications

Book Review: “Blue Swan Black Swan” — Madness Made Beautiful

Whether we call this slim volume poetic prose or prose poetry, a novella or a collection of verse, seems beside the point. It is haunting, hypnotic, and moving.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bitter Oleander Press, Blue Swan Black Swan, Georg Trakl, Stephanie Dickinson, Vince Czyz

Book Review: “Disquiet” — A Compassionate Litany of Tragedies in the Middle East

This is a timely novel, a lament for the multicultural harmony that has disappeared from Mesopotamia as well as a dire warning: fundamentalism is on the rise, not just in the Middle East but in the West as well.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Disquiet, Other Press, Vince Czyz, Zulfu Livaneli

Poetry Review: “Any Song Will Do” — A Very Worthwhile Discovery

Donald Levering’s poems exhort us to be less left-brained, to side more often with intuition, creativity, flights of fancy.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Any Song Will Do, Donald Levering, Poetry, Red Mountain Press

Book Review: “And Go Like This” — Short Stories of Distinction

The stories in And Go Like This are wise, compassionate, and deftly crafted.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: And Go Like This, John Crowley

Book Review: Robert Glick’s “Two Californias” — An Affinity for Fragmentation

Two Californias is full of humor, good writing, and thoughtful angles on human existence—with zombies thrown in for good measure.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: C&R Press, Robert Glick, Two Californias

Literary Remembrance: Homage to Guy Davenport — Brilliance Worth Savoring

The fifteenth anniversary of the death of a grievously neglected writer whom critics almost universally acclaim a creative genius.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: A Table of Green Fields, Da Vinci’s Bicycle, Guy Davenport, The Jules Verne Steam Balloon, Vince Czyz

Book Review: “My Red Heaven” — The City as a Mirror for Consciousness

Few contemporary authors much care to tussle with the proverbial mot juste; Lance Olsen insists on it, and over the course of fifteen novels, five books of nonfiction, and five short story collections, has shown himself a master of prose style.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Dzanc Books, Lance Olsen, My Red Heaven, Vincent Czyz

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