Monthly Archives: August 2010
Book Review: Richard Yates by Tao Lin
Richard Yates by Tao Lin, Melville House Publishing, 2010, http: http://richardyates.info/, 208 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-935554-15-8 / $14.95 Love him or hate him one thing is for sure: Tao Lin refuses to be ignored. Richard Yates, the author’s second novel, is … Continue reading
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Minireview: Make-Believe Love-Making by Ana Carrete
Ana Carrete, talented young California poet, and founder and editor of the online literary journal New Wave Vomit, has just released a book of poetry entitled Make-Believe Love-Making. The collection has a lot to do with, you guessed it, sex, … Continue reading
Drowning in Letters: A Review of Davis Schneiderman’s DRAIN by Nik Korpon
Drain, by Davis Schneiderman, Triquarterly Press: Northwestern University Press, 2010, http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/Title/tabid/68/ISBN/0-8101-5215-0/Default.aspx, 259 Pages, ISBN 0-8101-5215-0 / $22.95 In David Schneiderman’s new novel, DRAIN, the world has gone to shit. Lake Michigan has mysteriously drained, baring the scorched earth now labeled … Continue reading
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Some more fall festivals in Maryland and Pennsylvania
Small Press Fair Expo, September 25th and 26th at AIR on the North Side, Pittsburgh: SPF is Pittsburgh’s SMALL PRESS FESTIVAL, and it’s back for a second year! Last year’s SPF Expo attracted dozens of vendors and hundreds of visitors. … Continue reading
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Where Are They Now?
Unlike child stars of situation comedy television yesteryear, these past jmww contributors stars are rocketing upward. Can we talk about the number of books coming out this fall or winter from jmww contributors? Let’s do: Matt Bell: HOW THEY WERE … Continue reading
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Pages & Places Book Festival, October 2nd, Scranton, PH
The 2nd Annual Pages & Places Book Festival is happening on October 2nd in Scranton, PA. I went last year to table for jmww and had a great time. The turnout was excellent, the book buyers generous and interested, and … Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: Laura Shovan
Laura Shovan’s poetry chapbook, MOUNTAIN, LOG, SALT AND STONE, won the inaugural Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize from CityLit Press. Laura is an Artist-in-Education for the Maryland State Arts Council and has also led children’s and adult writing workshops for the … Continue reading
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Dogzplot-jmww-Sententia-wigleaf reading during AWP!
The lineup is finalized, and it is gorgeous, dangerous, bomb: Come hear Daniel Bailey, Shaindel Beers, Kim Chinquee, Jereme Dean, Greg Gerke, Mary Hamilton, Ben Loory, Robert Lopez, Kyle Minor, Meg Pokrass, Laura Ellen Scott, Peter Schwartz, Tyler Stoddard Smith, … Continue reading
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Spotlight: “Vertigo” by Ned Balbo
If you haven’t gotten a chance to pick up Ned Balbo’s The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, you should. Balbo, through a layering of pop culture and literary references, speaks to … Continue reading
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Book review: We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough by Mike Young
We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough by Mike Young, Publishing Genius Press, 2010 , http://www.Publishinggenius.com, ISBN 978-0-9820813-7-2 Mike Young’s first full-length poetry collection, We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough, is an absolute stunner. Young, who … Continue reading
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