Tag: reading
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New Reviews & an Essay in Print
I have two reviews out now: I contended with Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom for Heavy Feather Review, which you can read here. I reviewed Donald Antrim’s One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival, which is close to my heart and taught me quite a bit. You can read it in Colorado Review…
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Recent Writing
I had some writing published around the web (and one in print!) in the last few months: I reviewed Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance for The Athenaeum Review. It appeared in their print issue and online here. I reviewed Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed: A…
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Two New Reviews
I have two recent reviews out: For Colorado Review, I wrote about Krys Malcolm Belc’s memoir, The Natural Mother of the Child (Counterpoint Press). For Heavy Feather Review, I wrote about Claudia Rankine’s lyrical hybrid work, Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf Press), out this week in paperback.
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Review of Gina Nutt’s ‘Night Rooms’ in Heavy Feather
I reviewed Gina Nutt’s fantastic essay collection Night Rooms for Heavy Feather Review. You can read it here.
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“Saving the Suburbs” in Newfound
I have a new review in the latest issue of Newfound. In it, I look at Jason Diamond’s book The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs in conversation with the 2017 film Suburbicon. You can read the review here, and better yet, you can read the entire issue. Diamond’s The Sprawl is available through Coffee…
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Some Writing Around the Web
I had a number of things published in the past few days around the web: For the Lunch Ticket blog, I wrote about what it means to sit alone in my room listening to music and how it connected me to the wider world. You can read it here. For Issue IV of Variety Pack,…
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October Reads
I prioritize spooky reads in October for obvious reasons, although I never get through as many as I’d like. Still, the books in this list (with one non-spooky interruption) were worthy of reading during the most haunted month of the year.
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September Reads
I somehow let my September reads go by, but fear not! I certainly read, though I may have been a little in over my head to reflect.
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“Re-mystifying Language” in The Adroit Journal
One of my favorite memoirs published this year, E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others, has stuck with me since I read it in May. I reviewed it for The Adroit Journal, which you can now read here. I highly recommend this memoir of family, language, and loss.
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August Reads
August was a long month and great for staying in to read far and wide. I took advantage, though I am ready for cooler weather, only so that I can take the books outside for a change.
Ben Lewellyn-Taylor 