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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.
De Stefano tracks the evolution of a cabinet-maker’s daughter into a famously bombastic, chain-smoking political reporter and author.
Set in Boston’s rock scene during the ’80s, the mystery World Enough serves up plenty of compelling entertainment.
Comparisons and guesses about influence aside, poet Richard Hoffman’s voice is individual, original, and strong.
Poet Rob Cook bends time and space at will, dispenses with natural laws when convenient, and shuffles sensory perception like a deck of cards.
The biography offers a fascinating look at Frances Coke Villiers’s tale of rebellion, the plight of a memorable woman during a tumultuous time.
Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.
“As morality shifts,” NPR’s Ann Powers writes, “music does, too, helping people navigate those boundaries.”
Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
Book Review: “We Were Eight Years in Power” — An Essential Book
Nothing could be more necessary at this point in time than this book.
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