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Book Review: “American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank”

December 2, 2017
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Robert Frank had dared overturn the central conceit of the great photographs of the Farm Administration 1930s; that the poor were noble creatures.

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Book Review: “Old Rendering Plant” — Existence on Trial

November 17, 2017
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Hilbig’s prose demands sentence-by sentence commitment. It gravitates to the dark and dense, and occasionally surreal.

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Book Review: “We Were Eight Years in Power” — An Essential Book

November 11, 2017
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Nothing could be more necessary at this point in time than this book.

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Book Review: Richard Gessner — Sounding out Shapes with the Logic of Dreams

November 10, 2017
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Richard Gessner’s head is a cavern piled high with wonders—original images, fresh metaphors, mind-stretching scenarios, and alternate world orders.

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Book Review: “Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend”

November 2, 2017
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De Stefano tracks the evolution of a cabinet-maker’s daughter into a famously bombastic, chain-smoking political reporter and author.

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Book Review: “World Enough” — and Punk Time

October 30, 2017
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Set in Boston’s rock scene during the ’80s, the mystery World Enough serves up plenty of compelling entertainment.

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Poetry Review: “Noon until Night” — The Whole Struggle

October 25, 2017
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Comparisons and guesses about influence aside, poet Richard Hoffman’s voice is individual, original, and strong.

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Poetry Review: Dark Illumination in the “Punk Hotel”

October 23, 2017
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Poet Rob Cook bends time and space at will, dispenses with natural laws when convenient, and shuffles sensory perception like a deck of cards.

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Book Review: “Love, Madness & Scandal” — Among the Metaphysicals

October 12, 2017
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The biography offers a fascinating look at Frances Coke Villiers’s tale of rebellion, the plight of a memorable woman during a tumultuous time.

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Book Review: Oscar Wilde Fights the Dying of the Light

October 9, 2017
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Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.

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