Drew Hart

Book Review: “Foreverland” — Bound Until Death

March 4, 2022
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Here’s to Heather and Bill, and this lively saga…

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Book Review: “What Just Happened” — Memorable Thoughts on “A Long Year”

January 27, 2022
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From the pandemic’s beginning, Charles Finch uses the crisis as a nearly daily backdrop for musings on all sorts. The results are at once cathartic, frightening, exasperating, and often hilarious.

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Book Review: “The Recent East” — Exploring Seldom Seen Territory

March 25, 2021
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Thomas Grattan, a New Yorker with German roots, displays an observant eye and a way with dialogue in his first novel.

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

January 3, 2021
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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.

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

December 1, 2020
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Nicole Krauss’ new book of short stories generates a curious, understated, but genuinely transporting spirit, pretty much throughout.

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Book Review: “The Silence” — Brusque Prophecy

November 7, 2020
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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.

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

October 24, 2020
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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.

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

August 3, 2020
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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.

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

July 22, 2020
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Ah, Florida, “the grease trap under America’s George Foreman Grill”: not just “weird America,” also “impending America.”

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

July 10, 2020
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Hardly a portrait of glory from sea to shining sea, these tales drop in on estranged, lost, and overwhelmed people.

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