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Jorie Graham’s PLACE
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On one level, this is simply a note that a significant book’s been released: Jorie Graham’s Place, which I’ll contend is her best book in a decade. The easy charge against Graham’s work is that…
Infinite Book: Kevin Young’s The Grey Album
For lots of us, certain weird and meandering nonfiction books become crucial touchstones. These are the books which don’t, say, teach us about the guy who deciphered Linear B or about the geologic history of the United States, and are…
Letting a Rock Roll Down a Hill: An Interview with Daniel Torday
In just more than two days Daniel Torday’s The Sensualist will be released by Nouvella and first things first: the book’s a phenomenal read, sucking the reader in with what comes off as such a casual confidence that this reader,…
Infinite Books: The Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
I don’t remember where I first came across Jack Gilbert’s work, but I do know I was the student who checked both his Views of Jeopardy and Monolithos out from the Virginia Tech library for months on end. I also…
A Brief Interview with Tupelo Hassman
Tupelo Hassman‘s girlchild was released just less than a month back and got a fantastic review right out the gates in the NYTimes by the great Megan Mayhew Bergman. What I can tell you about girlchild is this: I spent…
