Book Reviews
Review: Dust & Grooves: Adventures In Record Collecting
Perhaps one of the ultimate ways to celebrate record collecting—apart from buying more records—is Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting. … read more
Review: Men Explain Things To Me
Men Explain Things to Me is a tribute to the women who came before; the women still going; and the women who will come after, for whom we struggle, and who will continue the struggle. … read more
Review: Proportion and Ornament
One suspects from the onset that Proportion and Ornament is to be understood in terms of its aesthetic value and experience. … read more
Review: Colorworld
Colorworld is a fictional story that pulls readers in, keeps them on the edge of their seats and leaves them wondering what is going to happen next as they travel throughout their day. … read more
Review: The Staked Plains
The Staked Plains is functioning (successfully) as a modern apocalyptic text, filling in the gaps of Revelations and beyond. A glad addition to my library. … read more
Review: DADA
DADA Rudolf Kuenzli Phaidon Press Street: 10.16.2006 Rudolf Kuenzli, a leading scholar of dadaism, joins forces with Phaidon Press, printer of fantastic art books, to make a survey on dada. While dadaism is one of the best known art movements of the 20th century, Kuenzli provides a great overview of the movement through his introductory
Review : Undertaker: 25 Years of Destruction
The Undertaker is a cartoon-like character that fit right in with the company at the time, a tall mortuary caretaker who gained mystical powers over the years, including being able to take over lighting systems and fog machines. … read more
Review: Dreams To Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and The...
Mark Ribowsky weaves together a brilliant narrative that explores the rise of Otis Redding in conjunction with the essential establishment of Stax Records as a powerhouse that greatly influenced and made the ’60s Southern soul scene. … read more
Review: 88 Maps
In Rob Carney’s fourth full-length poetry collection, 88 Maps, we find the two-time Utah Book Award Winner for Poetry tackling the juxtaposition of the naturalist and the consumerist with some certain amount of skill and some lesser amount of tact. … read more
Review: You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine
I started reading this book the day after I fractured my ribs, and I think the combination of the surrealism in Kleeman’s story and my slightly unhinged mental state (due to the pain) made me crazier than normal for a few days. … read more