The Maris Review, vol 32
Yesterday, within the space of minutes, I saw two pieces of info on Bluesky that made me, once again, despair for the state of media — and book coverage, specifically.
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The Maris Review, vol 95
The theme of the week is schadenfreude What I read this week Night Night Fawn by Jordy Rosenberg Why aren't more people screaming about this book? What an accomplishment for Jordy Rosenberg to change the entire tenor and tone of his work after his excellent debut, Confessions of
The Maris Review, vol 94
The theme of the week is poetry in unexpected places. What I read this week The Copywriter by Daniel Poppick Not since Hannah Horvath worked in advertorial at GQ has a true artiste's creative energy been so stifled by a day job. Daniel Poppick's debut novel
The Maris Review, vol 93
The theme of this week is reappearances What I read this week This Is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin As precise and epic in scope as the most celebrated Russian novels, This Is Where the Serpent Lives is a modern history of Pakistan whose characters will likely haunt
The Maris Review, vol 92
The theme of the week is heroines of the telephone company What I read this week Vigil by George Saunders Is Vigil George Saunders's best work or third best work or fifth best work? No. But do his sentences still sing, each and every one of them? Even