Published Reviews
ForeWord Magazine reviews
by T. R. Hummer
Having vaporized a class bully, Calvin says to Hobbes, “my ethicator machine must have had a built-in moral compromise spectral release phantasmatron!” About a...
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El Paso Times reviews
"Lit Windowpane" (Main Street Rag, $14) is a tight collection of poems that speaks to the beauty of the natural world, as well as the relationships between...
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http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2002spring/hummer.shtml reviews
by T. R. Hummer
In his previous collection, Walt Whitman in Hell, T. R. Hummer contrasted Whitman's idealistic lyrics of America with visions of a blighted nation, culminating in...
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The Montreal Gazette reviews
The best stories may be short, but never small; in fact, the ones that move us most deeply embody whole worlds. Such is true of the tough tales in Fierce, the...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
by Mindy Lewis
“…a moving, poignant and enraging, yet redemptive, account of one woman’s refusal to accept victimization, powerfully told in vivid, poetic prose.”
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
by Mindy Lewis
“In lyrical, honest language, a painter describes her adolescence in a New York psychiatric hospital…Complex, chilling, luminous: not one false step.”
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KRT News Wire reviews
Ben Fong-Torres tells how (Omaha radio station owner) Todd Storz and his program director, Bill Stewart, noticed how patrons at a bar kept playing the same few...
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Charlotte Observer reviews
by Scott Owens
The poet in “The Fractured World” builds a palpable world of stadiums, cellars, bathrooms, closets, stairwells, guns, hand grenades, corpses, KFC, Winn-Dixie, “...
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Adagio Verse Quarterly reviews
by Scott Owens
The Fractured World by Scott Owens deserves to be widely read both for its poetic and its social worth. These poems—so much more than a story of coming of age—are...
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Wall Street Journal reviews
Most computer processing chips are built on the foundations of the chips that are already in use. Designing a new chip from the ground up is a costly and time-...
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
Hyde portrays high school as downright frightening, a place where socially elite bullies are given free rein to torment the less fortunate with impunity. And for...
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
by Lou Beach
Eclectic, vivid moments in time, delivered in the exacting limits of social media. Well, this is one hell of a way to mitigate the boredom of those monotonous...
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http://www.indiapost.com/a-whodunit-and-the-tale-of-contemporary-afghanistan/ reviews
It’s one thing to spin off a fictional story set against a historical backdrop but quite another to fictionalize life in a contemporary war zone. You see, it...
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The Bastard Year back cover reviews
"The Bastard Year is a splendid novel full of wisdom...Written in a spare, lovely, resonant prose, this book lingers in the mind and heart long after it has ended...
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Library Journal, Booklist, more reviews
"Ava Lark, a divorced Jewish woman, and her 12-year-old son, Lewis, move into a WASPy 1950s Boston suburb only to be ostracized by their neighbors and...
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The Boston Globe reviews
by Lisa Brown
I'll start with Lisa Brown's first book, ``How to Be," which gives instruction on how to be a bear, a monkey, a turtle, a snake, a spider, a dog, and, ultimately,...
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Amazon.com reviews
by Rob Loughran
Not since I read The Milagro Beanfield War and The Hotel New Hampshire have I encountered such eclectic, quirky characters in a story that is so much fun to read...
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