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My review of THREATS by Amelia Gray is live at The Nervous Breakdown
Posted on March 22, 2012 Leave a Comment
My review of the debut novel THREATS by Amelia Gray is now live up at The Nervous Breakdown. This is a sly, subtle, unsettling and touching novel. I remember the first time I heard Amelia read, at Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas release party here in Chicago. It was the first time I’d met her, or […]
My review of Karl Taro Greenfeld’s NowTrends is live at The Nervous Breakdown.
Posted on February 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
My review of Karl Taro Greenfeld’s NowTrends is now up at The Nervous Breakdown. Great stuff. He’s known as a non-fiction author, but he writes fiction too, very well published—The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, BASS, O. Henry, etc. And KTG is one hell of a nice guy, too. I ran across his work in […]
QUICKIES! Chicago
Posted on October 14, 2009 2 Comments
QUICKIES! Chicago – October 13, 2009: JAC JEMC ELIZABETH WYLDER BEN TANZER KATE DUVA CAROLINE PICARD AARON PLASEK GRAY CASEY BYE ZACH DODSON RICHARD THOMAS AARON BURCH BLAKE BUTLER AMELIA GRAY Wow, so what a great night. I was thrilled when Mary and Lindsay invited me to read at QUICKIES! Chicago, but little did I […]