Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall KenanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars A phenomenal short story collection by a writer whom I have admired and read with respect and admiration since I first encountered him. Randall Kenan died … Continue reading →
New story published at the Barcelona Review, online. http://www.barcelonareview.com/97/e_jg.html
Continue reading →Stone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergMy rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of the essential books in the world of gender fluidity, published long before the current discussions of transgender issues, carving out a space unique to itself, … Continue reading →
Picked this one because someone recommended it and really, at this point, desperate for stuff to watch. Roommate is very picky but did not veto. I spent the first hour counting the tropes and predicting the next line of dialog, … Continue reading →
Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Dell UptonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is not at all well known but fascinated me when I ran across it, in the course of doing research for a … Continue reading →
Green Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars A lot of what worked for me in Red Mars becomes utterly tedious in Green Mars: the endless travel over the surface and the descriptions of the landscape. In … Continue reading →
Red Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars There is an element of this book that is fantastic, the journey over Mars. Robinson writes so concretely and minutely of the travels of the First Hundred colonists – … Continue reading →
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I am trying to be more cautious with five-star reviews, but in the case of Tristram Shandy the rating is inevitable. This is the … Continue reading →
Ingathering: The Complete People Stories by Zenna Henderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I read these stories now, they remind me of Laura Ingalls Wilder; they’re all written about earnest, kind, unhappy, lost people, and the refrains in … Continue reading →
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Philip Dick’s novels have permeated our culture through the many movie and television adaptations of his work; this particular novel, though, is the one that I think about … Continue reading →