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Apr 4, 20216 min read

A Guide and an Almanac

by John Liddy Kieran Beville opens his book with the appropriate chapter heading, “Making a Start,” and some advice from Stephen King:...

Mar 29, 202110 min read

SO WILL THE SCRIBES

by Nicolas D. Sampson Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke (Bantam Classics, 1988) ‘But I counsel...

Mar 18, 20213 min read

A Candle for Her Lake-staring Mother

by John Liddy Zephyr by Mary Mullen (Salmon Poetry, 2010) On first browsing through these poems with my customary “getting to know you”...

Mar 14, 20214 min read

Instead of a Review a Tribute to Mark Whelan

by John Liddy The Sear of Wounds by Mark Whelan (Doghouse, 2012) In my copy of Mark’s last published book, The Sear of Wounds, he wrote a...

Mar 12, 202111 min read

Ugly Beautiful Books

by Anjanette Delgado What is it about the ugly, the scatological, that has such power to break us open? To clear our defenses and...

Mar 7, 20211 min read

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