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Funny Weather by Olivia Laing, reviewed by Callum McAllister

Callum McAllister

Funny Weather by Olivia Laing

Funny Weather by Olivia Laing / Picador / 368 pages / 2020 It feels as though we are living in an alternate timeline. Sometime in 2016, we entered a parallel version of history and have not since … [Read more...]

Read The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! by Miah Jeffra With Multiple Browser Tabs Open — a review by Laura Eppinger

Laura Eppinger

Miah Jeffra essays The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!

The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! by Miah Jeffra / Sibling Rivalry Press / 978-1-943977-73-4 / 140 pages / March 20, 2020 An ekphrastic piece of writing responds to a work of art--usually one … [Read more...]

Memory as Mapmaking: Reading Chew Yi Wei’s Indelible City, by Matthew Wu

Matthew Wu

Chew Yi Wei - Indelible City

Indelible City by Chew Yi Wei / Marshall Cavendish International / 2018 / 9789814794251 / 112 pages Chew Yi Wei's book Indelible City begins with a map. It is haphazardly drawn and populated by … [Read more...]

The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert, reviewed by Marilyn Duarte

Marilyn Duarte

The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert / essays

The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert / Black Ocean Press / November 15, 2018 / 184 pages / $18.95 The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert is divided into three sections and consists of twenty-two short … [Read more...]

Notes and Dispatches: Essays by rob mclennan, reviewed by Julian Day

Julian Day

Notes and Dispatches: Essays by rob mclennan

Notes and Dispatches: Essays by rob mclennan / Insomniac Press / 2014 / 978-1554831265 / 318 pages rob mclennan has operated above/ground press from his home base of Ottawa for more than … [Read more...]

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia, reviewed by Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia / Noodlebrain Press/ 2019 “Don’t mention his name, and his name will pass on.” ---Streets of Laredo This is the approach I will use … [Read more...]

A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodovsky, trans. Anita Norich, reviewed by Jessica Kirzane

Jessica Kirzane

Book review: A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodovsky, trans. Anita Norich

A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodovsky. Translated by Anita Norich / Indiana University Press / 978-0253040763 / 2019 / 172 pages. In some ways, the narrator of Kadya Molodovsky’s A … [Read more...]

On the Dangerous Edge of Things: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

Jerry Kamstra Weed, reviewed

Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra / Peer Amid Press / 2019 / 978-1-7335481-0-6 / 312 pages This is, to be sure, a tale of adventure – a non-fiction, first-person account of … [Read more...]

The Anna Karenina Fix by Viv Groskop, reviewed by Margaryta Golovchenko

Margaryta Golovchenko

The Anna Karenina Fix

The Anna Karenina Fix by Viv Groskop / Harry N. Abrams / 978-1419732720 / 2018 The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature is more than your average memoir, beginning with its … [Read more...]

Review – Les Paul: The Lost Interviews by Jim O’Donnell

Denise Enck

Les Paul: The Lost Interviews by Jim O'Donnell

Les Paul: The Lost Interviews: Five Never-Before-Published Talks With a Guitar Genius by Jim O'Donnell / 978-1492218913 / 152 pages What comes to mind when you hear the name "Les Paul"? Maybe the … [Read more...]

Review – The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt

Denise Enck

The Beats: A Short Introduction by David Sterritt

The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt / Oxford University Press / 978-0-19-979677-9 / 126 pages David Sterritt's work might be familiar to Beat or film aficionados through his … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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