When I think of Kate Durbin I think of Hollywood. Kept Women has the genius cadence of the Shining, a product of England’s EMI Elstress Studios and an aerial shot of Mount Hood’s Timberline Lodge: not Hollywood, a hollow. Kept Women is Durbin’s new chapbook from Insert Blanc Press. A tour of a renowned Los […]
Book count for 2012: 64. See below for list. Yes, 64 is quite a fall from last year’s count of 100+, but page for page, I read a lot more this year than I have in years past. Books like Infinite Jest, 2666, Freedom, The Instructions, and the various presidential biographies – these took major […]
Five Reasons Why Slim Century is a Good Record 1. The Canoes, the band behind Slim Century, are powered by a bunch of cool dudes who like to play good music, and to the best of my knowledge, they suffer no delusions of grandeur and have never been diagnosed with RSS (Rockstar Syndrome). 2. It’s […]
My father is not a fan of fiction. The implications of this could be cruel and boring – the most onerous of Künstlerroman clichés – but there is no Oedipal struggle for recognition in my family. It is just that my father – who is well read in the Classics, as well as mid-century American […]
—I grew up in Illinois and Wisconsin, on just the other side of the lake from Michigan, or The Glove State. Detroit hung out there like some kind of borderland. Even from a young age, people would say, “Oh, Detroit…” the same way they might start to speak of an extended family member who had […]
