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Vince Czyz

Book Review: “Venus&Document” — Framing the World in Abstractions

This novel of ideas reads like an essay narrated in the first-person by a self-absorbed automaton.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Crowsnest Books, Jared Marcel Pollen, Venus & Document, Vince Czyz

Book Review: “Blue Swan Black Swan” — Madness Made Beautiful

Whether we call this slim volume poetic prose or prose poetry, a novella or a collection of verse, seems beside the point. It is haunting, hypnotic, and moving.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bitter Oleander Press, Blue Swan Black Swan, Georg Trakl, Stephanie Dickinson, Vince Czyz

Book Review: “Disquiet” — A Compassionate Litany of Tragedies in the Middle East

This is a timely novel, a lament for the multicultural harmony that has disappeared from Mesopotamia as well as a dire warning: fundamentalism is on the rise, not just in the Middle East but in the West as well.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Disquiet, Other Press, Vince Czyz, Zulfu Livaneli

Book Review: “Brut: Writings on Art & Artists” — Proceed with Caution, But Proceed

These are not persuasive essays; rather, they are thought-provoking juxtapositions of facts, observations, and speculations — with a teleology.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Brut: Writings on Art & Artists, Harold Jaffe, Vince Czyz

Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2020

An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Bill-Marx, Ed Meek, Kai Maristed, Roberta Silman, Tess Lewis, Vince Czyz

Literary Remembrance: Homage to Guy Davenport — Brilliance Worth Savoring

The fifteenth anniversary of the death of a grievously neglected writer whom critics almost universally acclaim a creative genius.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: A Table of Green Fields, Da Vinci’s Bicycle, Guy Davenport, The Jules Verne Steam Balloon, Vince Czyz

Recommended Books, 2019

An eclectic round-up of our favorite books of the year from our critics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Ed Peed, Katharine Coldiron, Steve Provizer, Tess Lewis, Vince Czyz

Book Review: “Five Cities” — Urban Meditations on Turkish History and Culture

Five Cities is a species of psychogeography, a deep map, that weighs the effects of topography, urban environments, and monuments of the past on mood and perspective.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Five Cities, Vince Czyz

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