Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.
Anthony Wallace
Literary Homage: Denis Johnson, American Dostoevsky
Denis Johnson’s spiritual vision was dark and more than a little scary but also supremely generous.
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.
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.
Book Review: “The Old Priest” — Exquisite Stories About Being Human
This small but important book is a collection of stories about being human. It explores, even probes, the inner recesses of its characters without pretense or flamboyance.
Book Review: Denis Johnson’s Beautiful, Haunting “Train Dreams”
In “Train Dreams” the world of beauty and terror is balanced as only our best writers have been able to balance those things.
Book Review: Getting Closer To Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman is an exuberant poet, and fellow versifier C. K. Williams is exuberant about Whitman in this wonderfully perceptive introduction to his poetry. On Whitman (Writers on Writers) by C. K. Williams. Princeton University Press, 208 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Anthony Wallace On Whitman is a meditation on the life and work of the […]