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Drew Hart

Book Review: “Desert Oracle” — Dwelling on the Fringe

Desert Oracle is an omnibus, a kind of hand drawn map, as well as a bit of a crackup — something you will peruse and possibly find the route leading to a deeper dive.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Desert Oracle, Drew Hart, Ken Layne

Book Review: Nicole Krauss’ “To Be a Man” — A Virtuoso Performance

Nicole Krauss’ new book of short stories generates a curious, understated, but genuinely transporting spirit, pretty much throughout.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Harper Collins, Nicole Krauss, To Be a Man

Book Review: “The Silence” — Brusque Prophecy

Many Don DeLillo fans will overlook this novella’s somewhat stilted dialogue and perfunctory erotic scenes for the sake of another taste of his dark and knowing world.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Don-DeLillo, Drew Hart, The Silence

Book Review: “Cuyahoga” — An Old-Fashioned Medicine Show of a Read

Filled with galoots of all kinds, the novel might not have any true reason for existing, nor may it have any reason to end. But heck, it’s a good, old-fashioned, medicine show of a read.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Cuyahoga, Drew Hart, Pete Beatty

Book Review: “Pew” — Someone Truly Out of This World

In no way a ‘tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing’, Pew is instead a kind of reverie, a wide-eyed spin on the Southern novel.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Catherine Lacey, Drew Hart, Pew

Book Review: “In the Land of Good Living” — Satisfying Your Gonzo Curiosity

Ah, Florida, “the grease trap under America’s George Foreman Grill”: not just “weird America,” also “impending America.”

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, In the Land of Good Living, Kent Russell, knopf

Book Review: “Cool For America” — A World of Dazed Impermanence

Hardly a portrait of glory from sea to shining sea, these tales drop in on estranged, lost, and overwhelmed people.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Andrew Martin, Cool for America, Drew Hart, Farrar Straus & Giroux

Book Review: “You Will Never Be Forgotten” — Curiouser and Curiouser

Whatever might be dark about these stories may also be — since they’re reliably witty and frequently very funny — a welcome distraction and relief from current events.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten

Book Review: “Weather” — Despite All the Ruckus

There’s a funny, parabolic quality to the emotional weather in Weather — amidst all the unsettling harbingers, the sensation of being in end times, there is still love.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Jenny Offill, Weather

Book Review: Miranda Popkey’s “Topics of Conversation” — A Bemused Candor

What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Drew Hart, Miranda Popkey

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