REVIEW: Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
byFiction. 336 pgs. Double Day Books. July 2023. 9780385545150. Long a staple of genre fiction, sequels and series have never held much favor in the blue-ribbon literary scene. Because “works…
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt
byLong Distance Book Club was created out of a desire to analyze works we admire with people we don’t often see in person. Using a Google document, a couple of…
REVIEW: Low by Nick Flynn
byPoetry. 112 pgs. Graywolf Press. November 2023. 978-1-64445-259-2. It was initially difficult to say whether Nick Flynn’s forthcoming hybrid collection, Low, would be an engagement with the mundane or something…
Letting Our Messy Humanity Shine: An Interview with Gayle Brandeis
byWhen Gayle Brandeis was three years old, she would hold the Chicago Tribune up above her cereal bowl, just like her parents did every morning. They didn’t realize she knew…
REVIEW: The Adventure by Giorgio Agamben
byNonfiction. 104 pgs. MIT Press. March 2018. 9780262037594. The fact that the term [adventure]—crucial to the chivalric tradition to which the love poets were so familiar—does not appear in more…
REVIEW: Threshold by Rob Doyle
byFiction. 336 pgs. Bloomsbury Publishing. January 2020. 9781635574142. Rob Doyle’s autobiographical novel, Threshold, is made up of loosely connected chapters taking place everywhere from Berlin, to Bangkok to San Francisco,…
REVIEW: Pale Townie by Tom Will
byPoetry. 46 pgs. Apocalypse Confidential. July 2023. 9798987366219. Why would someone take the end rhymes of poem-within-novel “Pale Fire” and repopulate its heroic couplets with an entire new book of…
REVIEW: Father, Husband by Scherezade Siobhan
byPoetry. 112 pgs. Salo Press. December 2015. 9780993350818. “Poetry,” believes the great Don Patterson, “must transport you from the ground to the sky.” If Scherezade Siobhan has done anything at…
REVIEW: The Brittanys by Brittany Ackerman
byFiction. 272 pgs. Vintage June 2021. 9780593311738. Oh, to be fourteen again. To experiment with webcams, go out on first dates, and waste time at the mall. To make best…
Interview With FREEDOM HOUSE Author KB Brookins
byLO: I’m excited to chat about your new book that’s coming out, the full poetry collection, Freedom House. I just finished reading my copy of the manuscript and absolutely loved…