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Jay Atkinson

Film Review: “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” — Chekhov’s Flamethrower

Quentin Tarantino delights in exhausting his audiences as much as he does in entertaining them.

By: Jay Atkinson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Jay Atkinson, Once Upon a Time ... in Hoillywood, Quentin Tarantino

Literary Appreciation: “The Passion for the Thing” — An Argument for Writer Harry Crews

The Southern-inflected melee of Harry Crews’ universe is like a Hieronymus Bosch canvas dipped in whiskey and flour and deep-fried.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Blood Bone and Marrow, Harry Crews, Jay Atkinson, Southern literature, Ted Geltner, University of Georgia Press

Book Review: The Lucidly Chilling “Massacre on the Merrimack” — The Woman Who Killed Indians

Jay Atkinson does a great service to the complexities of history by portraying the bloody tragedy of each side’s mutually deadly incomprehension.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Abenaki, Captivity, Colonial America, Hannah Duston, Indian Captivity, Jay Atkinson, Massacre on the Merrimack, Matt Hanson, Revenge

Book Review: “Long Mile Home” — An Informative View of the Boston Marathon Bombings That Lacks Investigative Muscle

A fast-paced, fact-laden book by two “Boston Globe” reporters about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that doesn’t answer the tough questions.

By: Jay Atkinson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Boston Marathon Bombing, boston-globe, Jay Atkinson, Jenna Russell, Long Mile Home, Scot Helman

Author Interview: Jay Atkinson’s Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man — Remembrance of Punches Past

If Wordsworth was right in saying that poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility, than a rugby memoir is a punch in the face reconsidered from a hospital bed.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Car, Harry Crews, Jay Atkinson, memoir, Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man, Rugby, Sports

Book Review: Traveling Down ‘Paradise Road’

Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac’s Lost Highway and My Search for America by Jay Atkinson, Wiley and Sons, 250 pages, $25.95 Reviewed By Nancye Tuttle I’m ready to pack my bag and hit the road. But it isn’t Jack Kerouac’s iconic 1957 novel On the Road that’s fueling my wanderlust. It’s Jay Atkinson’s compelling, new memoir […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books Tagged: Jack Kerouac, Jay Atkinson, Neal Cassidy, On the Road, Paradise Road

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