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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel by Max Porter

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel by Max Porter

by Melissa Beck | Aug 11, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Graywolf Press Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] All of us deal with grief in different ways and in this short book Max Porter presents us with grief...

The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

by michaeld | Dec 14, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction

    Booze Bellies & Cricket Balls By Shehan Karunatilaka Graywolf Press, $16.00, 416 pages Sportswriter and cricket fanatic WG Karunasen is falling apart. Years of heavy drinking have destroyed his liver, and the end is nigh. While this impending doom...

Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir

by michaeld | Nov 2, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs

    Burying The Past By Carmen Bugan Graywolf Press 15.00 256 pages Just once, there needs to be a book about a happy Romanian peasant. Burying the Typewriter looks at the story of Carmen Bugan, whose family was persecuted because the father decided to do...

The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness

by Site Owner | Aug 27, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography

By Kevin Young Graywolf Press, $25.00, 483 pages Art can be distracting when it comes to talking about art. The Grey Album looks at the contributions of black culture, and the importance of those contributions when it comes to defining black culture itself. It covers...

Inferno: A New Translation

by Site Owner | Aug 20, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Classics, Poetry

By Dante Alighieri, Translated by Mary Jo Bang, Drawings by Henrik Drescher Graywolf Press, $28.00, 338 pages Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Inferno is truly unique. Although the work unquestionably remains Dante Alighieri’s classic journey through Hell, the...
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