Sunday Morning! “Butcher’s Crossing” by John Williams
In John Williams great work of Western Noir, the one-big-heist goes wrong and flawed men become most fully themselves in failure, like all of us
Category: Books
Sunday Morning! “Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted” by Gary Barwin
Gary Barwin is a writer of seemingly boundless energy and invention, and it does admittedly get a bit overwhelming at times.
Sunday Morning! “How I Became One of the Invisible” by David Rattray
David Rattray believed that poetry is a mystical language and the poet is a coyote smuggling us into the world of the spirit.
Sunday Morning! “New Animal” by Ella Baxter
In this debut novel, “New Animal” by Ella Baxter, a mortuary artist deals with all of the messy unruliness of bodies and grief.
Sunday Morning! “The Cannibal” by: John Hawkes
I chose The Cannibal by John Hawkes because it was on a table of writers who are generally considered the “real deal” by other writers.
Maus and The “Ban”
I’d be interested to know what the Maus fans will say about the book that replaced Maus if Maus gets reinstated.
Sunday Morning! Five short stories by Shirley Jackson
If you’ve felt that a large chunk of your society has gone insane-or YOU have-there’s much you might relate to in the short stories of Shirley Jackson.
Sunday Morning! “Hangsaman” by Shirley Jackson
Maybe stories about the post-war suburban idyll only really work if they’re dark and Gothic and frightening and by Shirley Jackson
Sunday Morning: “Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street” by Preston Fassel
I did want to talk a little about the book “Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street ” by Preston Fassel, which just came out
Eve Babitz (1943-2021)
The unforgettable Eve Babitz has died at age 78. May her memory be a party invitation.
Sunday Morning! “The Razor’s Edge” by Somerset Maugham
Maugham’s story “The Razor’s Edge” is about a WWI pilot who heads East seeking spiritual peace resonates even with those of us who haven’t gone very far on the path to sainthood.
Sunday Morning! “In the Shadow of Forward Motion” by David Wojnarowicz
On a recent trip to New York City, a David Wojnarowicz booklet from 1989, and the artist as explosive device.
Sunday Morning! “Jacket Weather” by Mike DeCapite
“Jacket Weather” by Mike DeCapite is an elegiac meditation on love and aging in New York with two lovers who could talk all night.
I, Tiberius: Robert Graves on Caligula
Graves attributed to Tiberius this: “I am nursing a viper for the Roman people, and Phaethon for the whole world.” Graves meant Caligula.
Sunday Morning! “I Will Die in a Foreign Land” by Kalani Pickhart
Kalani Pickhart’s hugely ambitious debut novel about the 2013 Ukrainian Revolution tells of how we struggle against the forces of history in order not to bury the ones we love.
Sunday Morning! “First Person Singular” by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami returns with “First Person Singular”: eight short stories that read like memories that might have been dreamed or imagined. In the end, it’s all the same.
Sunday Morning: “Solstice” by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a great novelist and I admire in her 1986 novel, but alas, it was an attraction that never turned into love.
Sunday Morning! “808s & Otherworlds” by Sean Avery Medlin
Sean Avery Medlin sings, and dreams, and recreates, and dances themself in 808s and Otherworlds, a book of “Memories, Remixes, and Mythologies” released this week by Two-Dollar Radio
Sunday Morning! “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton
Wharton’s American Gothic at least makes the case that hell is a lot colder than we’d imagined. Her character, Ethan Frome isn’t so lucky.
Sunday Morning! The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy’s great short story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is really about how we avoid thoughts of death, and in doing so, sidestep our lives all together.
