false 7 9 7 true 5850376 read 2 true 2584181 currently-reading 0 true 2584180 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70958658 to: Modern Communication Techniques in Des Moines (Paperback) by Gary Britson
Gary Britson hails from America's Midwest and has fermented in popular culture for more than fifty years. In his work, references to Finnegan's Wake and the operas of Wagner stand alongside mentions of Hee Haw and The Three Stooges. In other stories, zombies eat at restaurant salad bars and young women communicate with fellow riders on public transit via slogans on T-shirts. Gary Britson's prose is continually inventive, hilarious and incisive. He wields humor and satire like a butcher's cleaver, taking apart objects of his derision with deft, entertaining whacks. For any surface misanthropy found in his stories, Gary Britson's fiction is fundamentally about the hope of the underdog, the optimism of the overlooked, and the innocence of the partially sane. From the wilds and wastelands of American publishers' slush piles, Modern Communications Techniques in Des Moines (and other stories) is a moving, entertaining kaleidoscope of contemporary life captured in one volume like fireflies in a mason jar. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24231277 to: Fizz (Paperback) by Paul A. Toth
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I have been reading John Berryman's virtually impenetrable poem 77 Dream Songs since the early 90s. I've gotten back into them recently after acquiring a recording from 1963 of Berryman reading a selection of the as-yet-to-be-published poem (at that time). Hearing his interpretation and brief explanations of some of the sections of the poem have provided me the barest glimmer of insight into this brilliant and mostly opaque work. But that glimmer of insight has been enough to wholly renew my love for this poem. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24098138 to: Shroud Of The Gnome (Paperback) by James Tate
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As a writer exploring the realms of the prose poem, I thought I'd investigate one of the best in the genre: James Tate. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24098026 to: The Terror (Hardcover) by Dan Simmons
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A lightly fictionalized account of the fated Franklin Expedition to the arctic in the 1840s. Dan Simmions is a powerful, understated writer of enormous talent. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24097736 to: Randham Acts (paperback) by Matthew St. Amand
My first full-length novel ]]>