16
Mar
Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs
Gerald Murnane · ★★★★★
My first Murnane and certainly not my last. Oh man do I love this rambling fount of inspiration.
2 min read
Adrian Astur Alvarez
Adrian Astur Alvarez writes literary fiction and poetry concerned with memory, intimacy, and the quiet pressures that shape how people live together. His work often explores identity, displacement, and the moments where private lives come undone.
16
Mar
Aerth
Deborah Tomkins · ★★★★
Aerth is an interesting little read. It flies by in the suit of a genre tale, calling back
1 min read
16
Mar
Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn · ★★★★
A fascinating collage of voices which sum to create an impression of Philippine life in the 50s and
1 min read
16
Mar
Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
Marguerite Young · ★★★★
Question - what is the nature of experience - what dream among dreams is reality?
Two utopian communities
2 min read
16
Mar
Modern Poetry
Diane Seuss · ★★★★★
This is the first book of poetry I've read by Diane Seuss and I am floored.
1 min read
16
Mar
The Great Fires
Jack Gilbert · ★★★★★
...It is not about the spirit.
The spirit dances, comes and goes. But the soul
is nailed to
2 min read
16
Mar
The Brush: Poems
Eliana Hernández-Pachón · ★★★★
La Mata, or The Bush, or The Brush, as translated by Robin Myers (who has provided a sturdy
1 min read
16
Mar
Sand
Wolfgang Herrndorf · ★★★
It didn't help that the big, famously inscrutable twist was for some fluke of insight, not
1 min read
16
Mar
Silent Hill
2006 · ★★★
Better than I remembered, which isn't saying as much as it sounds like. The Dark Time sequences
1 min read
16
Mar
Shaolin Soccer
2001 · ★★★★
My son wanted to see this again, which I take as further proof I'm parenting well. The