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“I liked my balloon, but then I saw my sister’s balloon. She ran all around our yard with it. The balloon streamed behind her like a pretty ribbon. I don’t like my balloon anymore.” David Atkinson fosters nostalgia from memoriesmore…
InReview: Girl Model
“If you haven’t decided what your child should be doing yet,” announces a Russian-language voiceover during the opening scene of Girl Model, “Then perhaps you can offer them a modeling career.” The flaws in this line of thinking are likelymore…
InReview: You Can Make Him Like You
I don’t always get into books that are at least ostensibly about the transition to parenthood. After all, I don’t have any kids and don’t plan on having any. My wife says she doesn’t want to have kids either. Asmore…
InReview: Photographic Memory
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ross McElwee became known for his involvement in the cinéma vérité movement. He was specifically known for being one of the few participants in the movement to use—and redeem—voiceover narration. A few decadesmore…
InReview: Circuits of the Wind
I usually don’t review a series all at one time, preferring to take a look at individual books on their own. However, I picked up all three volumes of Circuits of the Wind by Michael Stutz at the same timemore…
American Life in Poetry: Column 417
There’s an old country-western song with the refrain, “That’s what happens when two worlds collide,” and in this poem by Bruce Guernsey, who divides his year between Illinois and Maine, we see a near collision between two worlds. Back Roadmore…
InReview: Tim Horvath’s ‘Understories’
Bellevue Literary Press 256 pages $14.95 ISBN: 9781934137444 I have always loved strange stories. Whether centering on weird phenomenon, presented in a bizarre manner, or what have you, oddity has always captured my interest. Really, I think this is truemore…
American Life in Poetry: Column 416
This kite-flying poem caught me right up and sent me flying as soon as Robert Gibb described those dimestore kites furled tighter than umbrellas, a perfect image. Gibb lives in Pennsylvania. Kites Come March we’d find them In the five-and-dimes,more…
Geek News Roundup #42
32 books that George R.R. Martin says inspired ‘Game of Thrones‘ Tesla gets his revenge on Thomas Edison through the power of rap Random House no longer trying to convince newbie authors to give away the store Altered Hubble imagesmore…
American Life in Poetry: Column 415
I’ve recently published a children’s book about a man who is so fussy about his yard that he loses his home, so I was immediately taken by this fine poem by Lynne Sharon Schwartz about a similar man. We allmore…
American Life in Poetry: Column 414
When spring finally arrives, it can be fun to see what winter left behind, and Jeffrey Harrison of Massachusetts is doing just that in this amusing poem. Mailboxes in Late Winter It’s a motley lot. A few still stand atmore…
InReview: Alpha Mike Foxtrot
I’m still trying to collect my thoughts on what I think of Alpha Mike Foxtrot by John L. Sheppard. It struck a chord with me, and the echoes of that haven’t quieted right away. They just reverberate, getting softer butmore…
