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Anthony Wallace

Arts Remembrance: Pharoah Sanders, A Primordial Saxophone Deity, (1940-2022)

Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.

By: Steve Provizer, Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Anthony Wallace, Pharoah Sanders, Steve Provizer

Concert Review: Pharoah Sanders Quartet at Blackman Auditorium

Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Anthony Wallace, John Coltrane Memorial Concert, Jonathan Blake, Nat Reeves, Pharoah Sanders, William Henderson

Literary Homage: Denis Johnson, American Dostoevsky

Denis Johnson’s spiritual vision was dark and more than a little scary but also supremely generous.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Already Dead, Anthony Wallace, Denis Johnson, Train Dreams, Tree of Smoke

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.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American fiction, Anthony Wallace, Donald Antrim, New-Yorker, Raymond Carver, short stories, The Emerald Light in the Air

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.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Fuse News Tagged: Anthony Wallace, PEN/Hemingway Award, Roberta Silman, The Old Priest

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.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anthony Wallace, Arts Now, short stories, The Drue Heinz Literature Prize, The Old Priest

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.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Review Tagged: American, Anthony Wallace, Denis Johnson, fiction, novella, Train Dreams

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 […]

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: American poetry, Anthony Wallace, C. K. Williams, On Whitman, Poetry, Princeton University Press, Walt Whitman

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