by Thomas Larson
July 9, 2012
The Guardians: An Elegy Sarah Manguso 2012 FSG Many who read Sarah Manguso’s first memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay (2008), were in awe of the tale and its teller. At twenty-one, Manguso contracted an autoimmune blood disease that grew into nine years’ of transfusions, paralysis, and depression. It seemed the only way she could […]
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by Lee Gulyas
July 9, 2012
Close Quarters Amy Monticello Sweet Publications 2012 In her first book, Amy Monticello begins with a joke, the kind that families tell and retell at picnics and holidays, the kind of joke that not only entertains but becomes legend, that points to larger themes and insight. Monticello sustains this focus on story and insight throughout […]
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Searching for The Snow Leopard Again
by Laura M. Browning July 9, 2012The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen The Viking Press 1978 I read The Snow Leopard as my life was going a bit pear-shaped—my first full-time job in three years, which I loved, was unexpectedly ending after only a few months, though nobody could say exactly when or how; my younger sister was ill and […]