false 123144 Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, elimae, Margie, Packingtown Review, Pleiades, Typo, Word For/Word, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he was a graduate research assistant and the editor for Natural Bridge. He currently teaches English composition and poetry at too many colleges and universities in St. Louis.]]> male Saint Louis, MO 06/2007 12/2009 186 1324 1152 true 5625860 read 3 true 248678 currently-reading 169 true 248677 to-read 471 false 252427 literature 424 false 252426 poetry-and-poetics 141 false 252429 philosophy 120 false 262211 cultural-studies-and-social-critics 87 false 252428 comics 71 false 252431 criticism 69 false 252430 religion 49 false 252432 art 43 false 258105 film 43 false 252435 history 32 false 332395 psychology 29 false 264471 music 24 false 807578 pedagogy 11 false 482582 apocalypse 9 false 528376 musil 9 false 332424 science 7 false 252425 books-to-avoid 7 false 340945 reference 5 false 2455947 peak-oil 4 false 4372766 writing-for-change 2 false 2302473 language 2 false 4539744 essays-for-courses 1 false 4266072 course-proposal 0 false 4312365 rereading The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction (Shorter Twelfth Edition) by John C. Brereton]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81844863 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BvuYXlQ-L._SL75_.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:19:34 -0800 Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (Hardcover) by Peter Maass]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72753796 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/319WVfV15YL._SL75_.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:15:51 -0800 Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle: Living Fully, Loving Dangerously (Paperback) by Kent Annan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80548970 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JsJqsiAiL._SL75_.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:15:38 -0800 The Shadow of Sirius (Paperback) by W.S. Merwin]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72753761 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31Oz8Ue3uxL._SL75_.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:15:21 -0800 Norton Introduction to the Short Novel: Third Edition (Paperback) by Jerome Beaty]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45475400 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180039107s/990972.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:15:09 -0800 The Anthologist (hardcover) by Nicholson Baker]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80549208 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255837544s/6364068.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:38:26 -0800 Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (P.S.) by Peter Singer]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72754000 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AYfpLNGFL._SL75_.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:33:29 -0700 The Confusions of Young Törless (Paperback) by Robert Musil]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48647816 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168045987s/29718.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:39:31 -0700 Young Torless (1966), I reread the (short) novel in a few sittings--an amazing, albeit dark & anxious, experience. The film, too, is good, though because we have no narrator, Musil's spiritual & intellectual concerns are less intact. And Torless...more...]]> Summertime: Scenes from a provincial life III (Hardcover) by J.M. Coetzee]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73636977 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nzRgh%2BRgL._SL75_.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:39:46 -0700 Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Hardcover) by Chris Hedges]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72754106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255632750s/6577631.jpg 123144 Kenneth http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249576133p2/123144.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/123144-kenneth Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:21:28 -0700