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- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
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books Archive
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Staff Stacks, Pt 1
Posted on August 15, 2012 | 32 CommentsWhat the writers of D&S are into now. -
A Chronology of Pop Culture Heroines
Posted on September 13, 2011 | 17 CommentsPart One, ages 6 to 18 -
Book Lover
Posted on September 6, 2011 | 7 CommentsI’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it hidden for many years, but when my wife finally catches me looking at the most recent Library of America catalogue with lust in my eyes, […] -
When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat
Posted on August 16, 2011 | 12 CommentsWhen We Lived in Uncle's Hat explores what makes a home or a family -- the family goes through many incarnations --and how it can be difficult to find a place that feels like home. -
The Nursery Window
Posted on August 4, 2011 | 2 Comments"Long ago," he said, "I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed." -
The Husband and Wife Summer Book Club
Posted on August 2, 2011 | 21 CommentsI've written in the past about how different our literary taste tends to be. We are reliable (and not always complimentary) opposites. -
Return and Report: The Murakami Edition
Posted on July 19, 2011 | 14 CommentsFour novels later, I find myself firmly in the critical admirers' camp. -
3,218 Nights of Bedtime Stories
Posted on June 20, 2011 | 1 CommentI stumbled across this sweet article about a dad who read to his daughter for 3,218 nights in a row. And now that the daughter is grown and gone, the dad reads picture books to senior citizens every Friday. Of course I want to read […] -
Dignified
Posted on June 7, 2011 | 4 CommentsIt's obvious that female writers and male writers are equals and "greatness" is highly subjective so we don't have to say a word, right? I'm not so sure. -
SexRead
Posted on May 10, 2011 | 19 CommentsSince I pretty much like tackling any topic through reading, it should be no surprise that I like reading about sex. -
Book Worm Love
Posted on April 19, 2011 | 14 CommentsThe books people love and the way they talk about them can be quite revealing about the way they view the world. Or not. -
I’m Not Fancy
Posted on March 29, 2011 | 52 Comments; “At fifty, every man has the face he deserves. To erase the lines and change the contours of one’s face is a way of obliterating one’s history.” –George Orwell ; When Kennedy was about 9, I started a mother/daughter book club. At the […] -
Return and Report
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 10 CommentsWelcome to a new segment on Stacks where I give brief reports on what I’ve been reading or listening to lately. Today’s edition will feature four novels I’ve read in the last month, including one that was on my to do list for this year. […] -
Forget the Rules
Posted on January 25, 2011 | 11 CommentsI am moving to a new house this week and I’ve had a surprisingly hard time adjusting to that fact. As dread has constantly threatened to take me over, one of my favourite passages from the Tao Te Ching has been running through my head […] -
Read More Adventurously
Posted on January 18, 2011 | 12 CommentsWhen was the last time you tried a book you expected to hate? -
Reading in the New Year
Posted on January 4, 2011 | 23 CommentsI still like to keep track of the end of year book lists because if, heaven forbid, I ever make it all the way through the stack on my bedside table (technically that stack has overflowed into a stack beside the table) or find myself stymied one summer day while pondering the quick selection rack at the library, I want to have a few ideas in my back pocket. -
Banned
Posted on December 7, 2010 | 23 CommentsSome conservative religious communities build bonfires or try to get books banned from public libraries, Mormons censor themselves. -
Seminal Works — Gilead
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 11 CommentsThis meditative novel is an examination of faith, humanity and the unbearable beauty of everyday life; it is impossible to overstate the spare, lyrical beauty of Robinson's prose or the complexity and intellectual rigor she brings to her writing. -
A Man of Letters
Posted on November 6, 2010 | 24 CommentsEverything I have learned about God is written in a book. In fact, it's difficult to imagine how my worldview might differ had certain ideas not been memorialized, glorified, and canonized in the form of holy books ... -
A Guide to Life
Posted on October 26, 2010 | 11 CommentsOne day, when I was about nine-years-old and in this mode, I came across a book that would change my life -
Tasteless
Posted on October 5, 2010 | 66 CommentsI think I’ve started to lose my taste. For years, I’ve prided myself on having good taste in books. I have carved my reading material up into different categories and congratulated myself on the breadth and diversity of my appetite as the kind of reader […] -
Stacks
Posted on October 4, 2010 | 4 CommentsThere are stacks of books and CDs on almost every flat surface of my house. Next to my bed is a tantalizing stack of; books I haven’t read yet. Beside the books waiting in the wings are the recently read, which I’m; not quite ready […]