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Meyer
Stephen Dixon
Melville House, 2007
Moving and readable.
+ You should get to know Meyer
I enjoyed this book. It focuses on death, old people, and thinking about the past in concrete, direct, and very readable sentences. I liked this book maybe more than any other books by Stephen Dixon, though I have liked every book I've read by him. It was moving and I felt emotional after reading ...
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Out of the Woods: Stories
Chris Offutt
Simon & Schuster, 2000
High Praise for Chris Offutt
+ Offutt turns on the overhead light and throws off the sheet.
+ Poetry
+ voices audible
+ Flannery, Breece, and Chris: Reference Standards
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Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)
J.F. Powers
NYRB Classics, 2000
J. F. Powers--better than Joyce and as meaningful as Flannery O'Connor
+ An unclassifiable masterpiece of subtlety and discernment
+ One age's satire is another age's reality
+ An Urbane Knight in Minnesota
+ Pre-Vatican II: Middle America & the Church Triumphant?
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Nightwork
Christine Schutt
Dalkey Archive Press, 2000
Beautiful and Disturbing
I'm glad to see that Dalkey Archive has reprinted this most beautiful and disturbing book. I've owned the original Knopf version since it came out in 1996. These stories made me squirm one minute and pant in jealousy the next. The precision and the lean muscularity of each piece is almost ...
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Time Will Darken It
William Maxwell
Vintage, 1997
Beautiful, memorable landscape
+ This is not a NOT review....
+ Please read.
+ Writing From Another Time of Another Time
+ Among the best depictions of the interiors of marriage
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Empty Bed Blues
George P. Garrett
University of Missouri Press, 2006
An anthology of fifteen stories by award-winning author George Garrett
Empty Bed Blues is an anthology of fifteen stories by award-winning author George Garrett, each unique, yet many mixing fact with fiction, memoir with adventure, comedy and tragedy. Nearly all stories are prose, though "A Short History of the Civil War" is in the form of a series of poems by two ...
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Hearts In Atlantis
Stephen King
Pocket, 2000
Odd yet mesmerising reading
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ LOW MEN PART OF DARK TOWER SAGA
This reading, which is also the Audible reading, may take some getting used to. Stephen King does relatively little acting here, while William Hurt apparently does none at all, yet by the end of the book I thought it was one of the finest dramatic readings I had ever heard.
Unlike what you may ...
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Updike in Cincinnati: A Literary Performance
Ohio University Press, 2007
Updike as Celebrity
The book is a running commentary of Updike visiting Cincinnati, reading a few short stories, interacting with some "Updike" experts, and answering questions. Updike is honest about his appearance, he likes getting paid, although he has trouble looking anyone in the eye. The interesting aspect to me ...
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Smonk: A Novel
Tom Franklin
William Morrow, 2006
Darkly Brilliant
+ One helluva good ride.
+ Frankklin scores again
A dark, obscene, horrific, hillarious, western romp, the likes of which you'll never have read before.
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Charity
Mark Richard
Anchor, 1999
Killer collection of short stories
+ he is cool
+ The Real Deal
+ Exceptional
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
Yiyun Li
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
Compelling short stories
+ Ten Perfect Jewels
+ Just the kind of short stories I always look for and rarely find
+ Deserves a place among thte classics
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado
Vintage, 2006
Another masterpiece by the late Jorge Amado!!!
+ UNFORGETABLE ROMANCE. BRAZIALIAN CLASSIC
+ Great Book For First Time Amado Reader
+ I loved this book!
+ Great Book
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All Aunt Hagar's Children
Edward P. Jones
Amistad, 2006
Once Again, Jones Amazes
+ Fading folkways
+ Hagar's Children
+ The Children We Would Have Never Known About
+ Mr. Jones does it again!!
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Nightwatchmen
Barry Hannah
The Viking Press, 1973
Why in the hell is this book out of print, damn it?
Nightwatchmen is a fine, strange and wonderful follow-up to Geronimo Rex. If you enjoy Barry Hannah's wacky, profane, compassionate world and can get your hands on this one, read it!
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1998
It's hard to critique Vonnegut
+ Another take on "How to be good"
Vonnegut is one of those genius writers that you can't help but love. "Slaughterhouse 5" was my first venture into the realm of Vonnegut, but I have to say that I think I enjoyed this tale much more. Perhaps because the topic is closer to my heart, or perhaps I was able to identify more closely ...
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