Infinite Little Island
…but he can’t resist the temptation. The wrestling scenes create the same mixed feelings Griffin experiences with Naomi. He appreciates the confidence bestowed on him by Coach Kepplemen but feels…
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Blood Oranges
…blood trickles down the generations: the stoicism in Louise, the sternness and force in my father. The aloofness in both. The same traits I fight against in myself. Maybe that’s…
Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
St. Martin's Press
288 pages
$30
“I recommend Red Dead’s History unreservedly not only to fans of the iconic video game, but also to anyone who wants to understand the riotousness — from Wild West gunslingers to Jim Crow to lynching — that darkened our past, and which continues to influence our culture. Olsson’s prose is graceful, his analysis profound. This is history at its most accessible and exciting.”
~Peter Cozzens, award-winning author of A Brutal Reckoning
The Vanishing Birds
…never seized the loot. They instead became bottom feeders, gorging on the discarded casings that litter the ground, sharing the bounty with their chipmunk brethren. *** I sit in the…
“Star Epiphany”
…ancient memory of cave huddling? What deeply seeded shift wakes us near the center, tempts us tiptoeing away from firelight and warmth, from the safety of others in the middle…
"In Praise of Winter Trees"
…the sky’s weight. Some nights an open heart is filled with vast spaces between stars the mind can’t grasp. The thought of heaven is not so much mammothed by the…
