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Rita Bullwinkel’s Belly Up is the latest, impressive book from A Strange Object.
In last week’s paper, our Anti-Trump Book Club columnist Jim Berhle conducted a funny, charming, and inspiring interview with Pod Save America’s co-host and former Senior Advisor to President Obama, Dan Pfeiffer. If you haven’t read it, you really should. It was the only thing I read last week that made me feel even moderately […]
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer is an enjoyable voyage through the Obama years, and chock-full of advice on how to cope with the Trump years. Pfeiffer brings a thrilling view of the 2008 Obama campaign, his time in the Communications Department of the White […]
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS In the poetry of Jodie Hollander, horses run free. They represent strength, beauty, and a carefree existence that seems to elude all the humans that populate this troubled planet. “If only I were more like my dark horses,” Hollander writes in the titular poem of My Dark Horses, “I wouldn’t have to […]
HOGARTH PRESS In a June interview with Hazlitt, Melissa Broder claimed she hasn’t seen the Guillermo del Toro film The Shape of Water. She admits she skipped through it on a plane, but gave up when she couldn’t find any sex scenes. The Shape of Water isn’t all that similar to Broder’s novel The Pisces, […]
Jodie Hollander’s My Dark Horses is poetry running free.
Interview with Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer on Yes We (Still) Can, Obama’s savvy court skills, and hope for the 2018 election.
Bruce LaBruce is like John Waters with more porn.
In Melissa Broder’s The Pisces, a woman fucks a fish to learn humanity.
HAWTHORNE BOOKS | AUTHOR PHOTO BY DAVE JANETTA Nebraska-based author Poe Ballantine has given his new novel the subtitle The Great American Loony Bin, Horseplaying, & Record-Collecting Novel, but despite the book’s relative slimness, that doesn’t cover nearly all of it. Whirlaway, published by Portland’s Hawthorne Books, also manages to pack in multiple ghosts, a […]
A weird, wonderful yarn about horse races, record collectors, and telepathic dogs.
Hugo Award-winning writer Jason Heller makes it difficult to guess who the intended audience is for in his latest book, Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded. The non-fiction tome, which focuses in on the ’70s—the decade that gave the world Ziggy Stardust and Star Wars—feels like it’s aimed at satisfying […]
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