Thinking Again
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Some No Doubt Mainly Personal Refections on The Collected Poems of Charles Olson
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I ’ve read a fair amount of the work of Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems (twice), the Selected Writings , which at one point in time was ...
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Ross Macdonald, the Early Novels
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Some of Raymond Chandler's short stories were published in magazines in the years before his first novel, The Big Sleep , cane out. He...
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Flash Review: Mort(e) by Robert Repino
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I liked the concept of the novel Mort(e) by Robert Repino, a science-fiction tale about an animal revolution against human control over t...
Friday, October 31, 2025
Lafcadio Hearn, Japanese Ghost Stories
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I had a read a few of Lafacadio Hearn’s ghost stories set in Japan in various editions over the years and never quite connected with them,...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolaño
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A lot of people find Roberto Bolaño’s poetry less interesting than his fiction. I can see why, in some ways. The poems lack the same scope...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Raymond Chandler and Jack Spicer
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The similarities between these two books are remarkable. Stylistically, they both feature taut understated prose that’s remarkably precise...
Monday, September 1, 2025
Let the Corpses Tan
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Let the Corpses Tan is a 2018 French film based on a crime novel by the French novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-95), who has been re...
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