Book Review: “Bob Dylan’s New York” by June Skinner Sawyers
First of all, a story: In April, 2010, I was in downtown Duluth on a freelance writing assignment, and, by 5 pm or so, I’d finished my interviews and was [...]
Book review: “Crossing to Safety” by Wallace Stegner
Hallie wants Larry Morgan to write a book about her parents Charity and Sid Lang. After all, he’s a famous novelist, and, for 35 years, Larry and his wife Sally [...]
Poem: How
How By Patrick T. Reardon . Ash the milk. Ash the caped-boy hero snapshot. . Ash Blacktop, signboards, white t-shirt boy. Ash left hand bunt. Ash weight circles lift. . [...]
Book review: “City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America” By Donald L. Miller
For a quarter of a century, I’ve used Donald L. Miller’s City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, one of the most popular books [...]
Book review: “The Cardinal” by Henry Morton Robinson
Henry Morton Robinson’s novel The Cardinal, originally published in 1950, was reissued in January, 1963, in anticipation of the upcoming release of the Otto Preminger movie of the same name. [...]
Book review: “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents” by Terry Pratchett
Maurice, the beat-up but brainy cat, has leapt from the stable loft onto the mouse in the time-honored tradition of predator and prey — only to stop short when the [...]
Book review: “Exposition” by Nathalie Leger, translated by Amanda DeMarco
Surrender, premeditate nothing, want nothing, neither discern nor dissect nor stare, but rather shift, dodge, lose focus, and — slowing down — consider the only material that presents itself, in [...]
Book review: “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
There is a beautiful embrace of complexity, a wonderful delight in ambiguity and amazements, to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s 2007 book of history, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. It is the [...]
Book review: “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal” by Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore is a writer of joyfully goofy and ribald novels about such things as vampires, demons, San Francisco, a Native-American trickster and the comic aspects of Shakespeare’s tragedies, such [...]
Poem: Let me tell you
Let me tell you By Patrick T. Reardon . Plug Nickel and Red Cent met on museum steps and, inside, mysticked with blue innocent Della Robbia, rhythmed the light-shine white [...]