by michaeld | Nov 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry
Ode to a Brother By Matthew Dickman W. W. Norton & Company 25.95 112 pages “Your ankles make me want to party.” Portland Poet, Matthew Dickman is a rock star in the poetry world. He won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his debut...
by michaeld | Nov 12, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Lives That Groove By Michael Chabon Harper, 480 pages, $27.99 There’s so much to like about Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon’s sprawling new novel, Telegraph Avenue, that it’s hard to pick just one reason why it’s so good. It’s a sweetly tangled story rich...
by Site Owner | Oct 15, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
By Katy Siegel, Lillian Davies & Pauline Pobocha Phaidon Press, 304 pages, $75.00 In Abstract Expressionism, art historian Katy Siegel has assembled a definitive overview of the movement that emerged in New York City in the early 1940s and...
by Site Owner | Sep 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Ivan Doig Riverhead Books, $27.95, 387 pages “As the father who was doing his bachelor best to raise me would have said, I didn’t lack imagination in the first place, and I certainly had no shortage of it as the clandestine eyewitness – or –...
by Site Owner | Jul 2, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Film, TV & Theater
By George Stevens, Jr. Knopf, $39.95, 738 pages Chinatown, the neo-noir film Roman Polanski directed in 1974, gave us one of movies most memorable quotes: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” It refers to the futility of good intentions by the private eye played by Jack...