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Book Review: “We All Looked Up” — A Book and Album Where Adolescence Meets the Apocalypse

May 14, 2015
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It’s not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes.

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Book Review: “Days of Rage” — Counterculture Craziness

May 13, 2015
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How can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.

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Poetry Review: Peter Gizzi’s “In Defense of Nothing” — Poetry as the Fruit of Bewilderment

May 5, 2015
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Peter Gizzi is a master at allowing his poetic language to summon its own range of meanings, rather than blatantly declaring them to the reader.

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Book Review: “Academy Street” — Affirming Life in Fresh and Surprising Ways

April 29, 2015
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This is a powerful, intensely felt short novel about the lives of ordinary people by a very young Irish writer.

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Music Interview: Andrew Grant Jackson on 1965, Music’s ‘Annus Mirabilis’

April 21, 2015
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1965 was the year in which the leading artists in American and British popular music pushed themselves beyond making albums that mixed covers with subpar originals.

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Book Interview: Todd Tietchen on Jack Kerouac — Torn Between Routes and Roots.

April 20, 2015
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The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.

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Fuse Book Review: A Peek Inside the Palace of a Veteran French Wordsmith

April 17, 2015
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Roger Grenier wears his considerable learning lightly. His writing is a graceful dance of the intellect.

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Book Review: “Young Skins” – The Precariousness of Even a Timid Existence

April 13, 2015
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The events Colin Barrett renders in Young Skins have the texture of life, albeit the darker side, in that they puzzle and disturb and linger painfully.

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Book Review: “Erebus” — A Brilliant Hybrid That Bears Witness to Tragedy

April 10, 2015
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Erebus is wonderful, original book that defies categorization.

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Poetry Review: “The New Oxford Book of War Poetry” — The Duty to Run Mad

April 8, 2015
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Editor Jon Stallworthy’s preference in this superb anthology is for poems that question, or provoke questions about, war.

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