For people who grew up during the Apollo program and manned missions to the Moon, Andrew Smith’s Moondust has an intriguing premise. He sets out to find and interview the men who walked on the Moon and see how it affected their lives. Unfortunately, it ultimately yields the conclusion that many people now seem to […]
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As its subtitle indicates, this blog stemmed from feeling wholly alien in an area that is a bulwark of conservative ideology. Imagine my surprise to find that one of the most radical political novels I’ve read in years comes from Sheldon, Iowa, some 70 miles away. Mike Palecek’s Looking for Bigfoot is a no-holds-barred onslaught […] A confession first. I am not a poetry fan. I don’t know why, but it is something I never got into. My preferred “form” of the art is songwriting. Most of my favorite songwriters are generally called “topical,” meaning they’re writing about what they see is happening in the world. That’s probably part of the […] Now that I’ve jettisoned some legal/political ballast, back to a bit more routine. Here’s some short takes on some recently consumed reading material. Longer reviews may (or may not) appear at Blogcritics. The Art of Getting Bent, Mark Sahm — Mark is a fellow Blogcritic who was kind enough to send me a copy of […] I have been a Kurt Vonnegut fan for as long as I can remember. That doesn’t mean I think everything he’s written is golden. There are some stinkers. But when you learn that you share some of the same worldview as that writer, you ponder whether that commonality also impacted your assessment of his writing […] |
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