Review: Stephen Florida Isn’t the Pride Month Read You Were Hoping for
Guest author Evan Bryson studied painting and writing in Indiana. He lives in Chicago and works in higher ed. Stephen Florida is a real goddam puzzler. I read it everywhere, […]
Review: Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost is the indepth biography Molina deserves
If you’re looking for a very short review of Erin Osmon’s Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost, here it is: If Jason Molina has ever been important to you, then […]
Barbara Browning’s The Gift is Auto-Fiction That Falls Flat
Guest author Evan Bryson studied painting and writing in Indiana. He lives in Chicago and works in higher ed. Here he reflects on Barbara Browning’s The Gift published by Coffee House Press. […]
Review: Sarah Manguso’s 300 Arguments
Guest author Evan Bryson studied painting and writing in Indiana. He lives in Chicago and works in higher ed. Here he reflects on Sarah Manguso’s book 300 Arguments published by […]
Review:Spiritual American Trash Celebrates the Lives of Eight Outsider Artists
God help the outsider artists. The emotional carnage of their lives suggests they were abandoned by God long ago, yet they continue to reach out to any listening Supreme Beings […]
Review: See You in the Morning by Mairead Case
“I think about that a lot. How if you are a bird, your nest is home. Absolutely everything else is the world. You stick out a wing, and there you […]
Review: Anne Elizabeth Moore’s Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
Much has been made of the importance of the body as a site of social, cultural, and economic forces. From books like Judy Norsigian’s Our Bodies, Ourselves and Dorothy Roberts’ […]
Alec Baldwin Shares His Wisdom at the Athenaeum Theatre
I’ve always been an Alec Baldwin fan—his ability to shape-shift through a variety of different roles astounds me. From portraying an ex-husband-turned-lover in It’s Complicated to his pinnacle role as […]
The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook Will Make Even Non-Clevelanders Homesick
I’ve loved Cleveland since I went to the Westside Market during a road trip with my parents when I was in middle school. It was the first time I’d been […]
Review: Out of the Basement Describes the Birth of the Punk Scene in Rockford
Out of the Basement: From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, Illinois, 1973-2005 is an autobiographical look at how the punk music scene started in David Ensminger’s hometown of Rockford, […]
Review: James Tadd Adcox, Repetition James Tadd Adcox, Repetition
James Tadd Adcox’s new novella is available in paperback and ebook on Cobalt Press. He will be reading at the Sunday Salon at the Riverview Tavern (1958 W Roscoe) on Sunday January […]
Review: Donika Kelly’s Bestiary Confronts Monstrous Humanity
As soon as we enter Donika Kelly’s Bestiary through its first poem, “Out West”, we undergo a transformation. Under Kelly’s invitation to “rely… on the thrumming wilderness of self,” we expand […]