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Ted Kehoe

Film Review: “It” – The Ordinary and Fantastic Eventually Meet

It is most effective when it dwells on the sad influence of history, on personal tragedy, on the banality of evil and cruel indifference.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: IT, Stephen King, Ted Kehoe

Fuse Book Review: Living Well is not the Same as Being Good—Jim Harrison’s “The Ancient Minstrel”

Jim Harrison’s prose is gorgeous, illuminating. The simple language slides into your head and resonates there.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Grove-Press, Jim Harrison, novella, Ted Kehoe, The Ancient Minstrel

Fuse Book Review: Towering Rage and Bottomless Mirth—Jonathan Franzen’s “Purity”

My biggest gripe is with a central tenet of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction: communication between generations is impossible.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American fiction, Jonathan Franzen, Purity, Ted Kehoe

Book Review: “Half an Inch of Water” — Nine Stories that Peer Memorably into Eternity

One of the hardest things to do as a writer of contemporary fiction is to create characters who are good.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: African-American, American fiction, Graywolf, Percival Everett, short stories, Ted Kehoe

Book Review: “Young Skins” – The Precariousness of Even a Timid Existence

The events Colin Barrett renders in Young Skins have the texture of life, albeit the darker side, in that they puzzle and disturb and linger painfully.

By: Ted Kehoe Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Colin Barrett, Irish, short stories, Ted Kehoe, Young Skins

Book Review: “Happy Are the Happy” — You Can’t Get There from Here

Yasmina Reza’s dollhouse of a novel is a miniaturist’s miracle.

By: Ted Kehoe Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: French literature, Happy Are the Happy, John Cullen, Other Press, Ted Kehoe, translation, Yasmina Reza

Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s “Loitering” — Slam-Bang Ghost Stories

Charies D’Ambrosio’s short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.

By: Ted Kehoe Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: 9/11, Charles D'Ambrosio, essays, Holden Caulfield, journalism, Loitering: New & Collected Essays, Mary Kay Letorneau, Ted Kehoe, Tin House

Book Review: Merritt Tierce’s Smart and Ruthless “Love Me Back” — The Way We Live Now

So much of what this novel has to say feels bracing and necessary. This is where a good part of America lives—dangling over a chasm.

By: Ted Kehoe Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American, contemporary fiction, Love Me Back, Merritt Tierce, novel, Ted Kehoe

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