I first became aware of George Saunders when I saw him on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as a guest. I admit the guy impressed me with his easy-going demeanor mixed with his sharp intelligence. My awareness of him coupled with his presentation on the show motivated me to seek out one of his…
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Book Review: “Not Forever, but for Now,” by Chuck Palahniuk with update
We’re bright young things, and no bright young thing wants to squander his life as a custodian to the dead.(from page 94) I need to put up a dartboard with adjectives and throw darts at it to choose some of my many different impressions of, _Not Forever, But For Now_ by Chuck Palahniuk. First, it…
Book Review: _End of the World House_, by Adrienne Celt
_End of the World House_ is the third novel I’ve read by Adrienne Celt. The first was, _Invitation to a Bonfire_ which is set in the 1920’s about a young Russian refugee in America. The second, _The Daughters_, is about an opera singer trying to extricate herself from a family curse, I wasn’t sure what…
Book Review — The Journey, by Suzanne Miller
It came to her that the efforts to stop climate change through technological innovations had , ultimately , perpetuated the problem and degraded the environment still further . The Journey is set in the not-too-distant future, where technology and the wreckage it has left behind is part of the landscape of the story of two…
Hidden in Childhood – Full Cover Reveal and Preface — Short Prose
UPDATE on the upcoming poetry anthology to be released towards the end of January. I read your words and a thousand childhoods burrowed into my heart. Gabriela Marie Milton My Dear Readers Thank you to everyone who submitted to Literary Revelations Publishing House’s collection Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology, due to be released late…
Books Read in 2022
YOUR 2022 BOOKS Blue Horses by Mary Oliver Ida: Searching for the Jazz Baby by Frank Prem Moose by Ron Potter Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Pinball 1973 by Haruki Murakami The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa Resurrection of Tatsuko by Hidenori Hiruta Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami…
