Deep in the Infinite Image: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Discusses Bats of the Republic

Deep in the Infinite Image: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Discusses Zachary Thomas Dodson’s Bats of the Republic Bats! Texas! Overlapping genres! Parallel timelines! Archival records! Full disclosure: I am an archivist who is a former graphic designer--who also has a weak spot for misunderstood animals. If there is any book that is written … Continue reading Deep in the Infinite Image: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Discusses Bats of the Republic →

The Nightmare Factory Book Club Has Touched The Rail That Is The Lesser Dead!

The lights in your train car flicker as the subway changes tracks, making an unexpected detour through forgotten caverns deep below the city. Pale eyes shine back at you through fogged and graffiti-scarred windows as you try to make sense of your surroundings. Gaining speed, your train plummets past abandoned stations, illegible insignia scrawled in … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Book Club Has Touched The Rail That Is The Lesser Dead! →

The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Drops In To See What Kind Of Situation THE TODD GLASS SITUATION Is In.

Todd Glass's situation is unique. After a killer set at the Largo at the Coronet, he retreated backstage to receive some well-deserved accolades from his peers. Two seconds later, he was face down in the filthy carpet of the comedy club, apparently in the throes of a serious heart attack. When Sarah Silverman came to … Continue reading The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Drops In To See What Kind Of Situation THE TODD GLASS SITUATION Is In. →

Wicked Wit: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Discusses Margaret Atwood’s The Stone Mattress

Margaret Atwood writes, “Calling a piece of short fiction a ‘tale’ removes it at least slightly from the realm of mundane works and days, as it evokes the world of the folk tale, the wonder tale, and the long-ago teller of tales.” Tales, as we are familiar with them, also evoke the idea of youth, … Continue reading Wicked Wit: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Discusses Margaret Atwood’s The Stone Mattress →

The Nightmare Factory Flies Over The Cuckoo’s Nest With THE DEVIL IN SILVER!

The human mind can't always be trusted. The objective world - light, sound, touch - is filtered through our perceptions to form our version of reality and, if the filter isn't quite screwed on tight enough, or the holes in the mesh are a little too big, they might just allow in gigantic, soul crushing … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Flies Over The Cuckoo’s Nest With THE DEVIL IN SILVER! →

The Unspoken in Louisa Hall’s SPEAK

What makes intelligence human? That is the unspoken question (branching off into a multitude of streams of related questions) throughout the cooperative narratives that span the course of over 300 years in Speak by Louisa Hall. First comes the diary of Mary Bradford, a young Puritan girl setting sail for the New World with her … Continue reading The Unspoken in Louisa Hall’s SPEAK →

weekend reading

Gabrielle Moss's short story, Lost Dog, is a little bit spooky. It's the story of a young boy, Hunter, his younger sister, Brianna, and the werewolf in their backyard. It's good and it's also funny. Here's a line: "Brianna gives him this look where she looks exactly like their mother when she’s disappointed in him. … Continue reading weekend reading →

Things Wither When The Nightmare Factory Book Club Confronts Domestic Horror….

As dusk settles in, the streetlights blink on one by one, and the neighborhood children are sent scattering to illusions of wholesome meals, sweet tea, and the Late Show before bed. Little do they know that as their block buzzed in the suburban afternoon and they explored the culverts and no-man's-lands that stitched their block … Continue reading Things Wither When The Nightmare Factory Book Club Confronts Domestic Horror…. →

The Authors & Auteurs Book Club Survived Cosmopolis and Looks Forward To Paprika

Cosmopolis was widely dismissed upon publication in April of 2003. It was an "intellectual turkey shoot," (The New York Times) a lesser DeLillo, an ornate, remote curiosity... Oh, what a difference five years and a financial collapse wrought. Eric Packer's farfetched machinations in the world of cyber capital now had some visible real world counterparts … Continue reading The Authors & Auteurs Book Club Survived Cosmopolis and Looks Forward To Paprika →

Judy Greer’s I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW ME FROM Has Taught The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club What It Means To Be The Second Banana

There is a reason that Judy Greer looks familiar. No. She isn't your dental hygienist. No. You probably didn't spit slurred game at her downtown last week after a few too many. No. She isn't the wacky ghost in your house that moves stuff around and makes the walls bleed when you're not looking. Judy … Continue reading Judy Greer’s I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW ME FROM Has Taught The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club What It Means To Be The Second Banana →