Sjón has been able to internalize the rhythm, tone, and structure of these classic literary forms, and then brilliantly recreate the ancient art of storytelling for a post-modern age.
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Review • The Whispering Muse, The Blue Fox, and From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón
Interview • Sjón
I’m a little bit surprised at how exotic people think the books are. It tells me that maybe my way of thinking is a little bit stranger than I had realized.
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Review • Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
To be sure, Red Moon is tapping into contemporary monster fiction popularity, but it does so while attempting to join the history of the social novel as well.
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Review • Fidel Castro by Nick Castior
Fidel Castro is brief, flows smoothly through six decades, and outlines the development of Castro’s political consciousness and official ideology, from Nationalism to Communism and back again.
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Review • Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash
Considering the glut of zombies lunching on people’s feet and pallid vampires sucking down plasma in fiction these days, it’s refreshing to find a different variety of horror, sadness and human emotion in Nothing Gold Can Stay, Ron Rash’s superb short story collection.
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Review • A Guide to Being Born by Ramona Ausubel
Fortunately for readers, Ausubel is here to guide us through her richly imagined worlds with grace and sensitivity, wiping away the sentimentality to get to the heart of what it means to survive under the weight of tragedy.
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Review • I Don’t Know I Said by Matthew Savoca
I Don’t Know I Said tells the story of a young twenty-something couple traveling nomadically across America in search of finding what they can’t even manage to put into words. Something.
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| MFA Corner | University of Oregon
The MFA students form a very strong, supportive community, holding regular readings at a local bookstore and meeting informally with each other throughout the year. Eugene is a pleasant city tailored to student life and interests, with affordable housing, a diversity of cafes and restaurants, an active music scene in clubs and bars,...
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Note • Forty-One Jane Doe’s by Carrie Olivia Adams
Drawing on quotes from Stephen Hawking, Leonard Euler, and Pythagoras, Adams embraces science and mathematics to create a wonderland of words. She is at once large in her curiosities and gentle in her explorations.
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Note • The Reprisal by Laudomia Bonanni
It’s midwinter in an Italian Alpine village, in the midst of World War Two. The Nazis are essentially occupying the country, Italian fascists are eliminating their own liberals, who are waging a guerilla war, and everything comes together in an abandoned monastery.
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Review • A Long Day at the End of the World by Brent Hendricks
Brent Marsh ran abreast the usual routine. Instead of cremating the bodies, he began to hoard; not all, mind you, but a considerable number.
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Review • A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar
In fact, there is a formula: colonialism + ethnic/class/tribal divisions = mass murder and cultural destruction.
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| MFA Corner | University of Massachusetts
There is always an invigorating exchange going on, and always courses in which writers and poets gather together, as well as readings and involvement of alumni who stay in the area because it’s a lovely place to live.
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Review • That Smell and Notes from Prison by Sonallah Ibrahim
That Smell is a darkly glowing meditation on life under curfew. It provides a stark picture of a man removed from his society, quietly longing to reach back in.
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Review • Wise Men by Stuart Nadler
In 2013, it’s hard to read a book that focuses on an obscenely wealthy family without hearing echoes of “We are the 99 percent” and “People Over Profits.” At the start of Stuart Nadler’s novel Wise Men, the Wise family is on the way up. It’s 1947, and a passenger airplane has crashed...
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Fiction • Mendel’s Wall by Jai Chakrabarti
As soon as Shabbos ended, Mendel went for his heavy tools. He had enough sheetrock in the basement—that wouldn’t be a problem—but first he made himself a coffee and added a bit of schnapps. He poured a little into his palm and rubbed it behind his ears like perfume. Sweet luck for the week...
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| MFA Corner | Colorado State University
Through our portfolio (which requires annotations and/or a critical paper), students are expected to read widely and rigorously. We believe that this particular challenge is crucial for students’ writing.
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