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Sarvas on Auslander

Mark Sarvas admires the wit and fury of Foreskin’s Lament, and wonders if the book is meant to be a parable on the durability of faith.

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McLemee on Mailer

On God is not one of Mailer’s best books, says Scott McLemee but it “exhibits a degree of coherence and control not found in The Castle in the Forest, his last raid upon the ineffable.”

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Kesey, All Over

Roy Kesey, who lives in Beijing “writes with the soul of a ventriloquist,” recently read in Asheville, and Carrie Frye was there.

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Happy weekend from the Kinchen family portrait

You know why this old photo of the Kinchens looks even more like a portrait to accompany a Poe story than previous installments? Because my mother was sent, and forwarded to me, a photocopy of the original photo. Never mind print shops, don’t bother with scanners. No, in my family, we’ll just slap that baby down on the Xerox machine. . . .

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