Posts by: Matthew Duffus
Aging and Accomplishment in Sonnetville, New Jersey
Craig Morgan Teicher establishes himself as one of our finest poets on marriage and fatherhood.
What Was Before comes Back: Tess Taylor’s California Chronicles
Tess Taylor is one of our great poets of nature and the premier chronicler of her native California.
Anthems for Bored Youth: On Lars Iyer’s Nietzsche and the Burbs
In an 1886 addendum to The Birth of Tragedy, his first book, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “today I find it an impossible book—badly written, clumsy, and embarrassing.” The book,…
His Blues to Be Somebody: Charlie Parker’s Early Years
Every superhero needs a suitable origin story, and great jazz musicians are no exception. In Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker, the acclaimed cultural critic Stanley…
Another Zone of Consciousness
“At times I have the feeling that I am writing about three or four different men, each one distinct, each one a contradiction of all the others. Fragments. Or the…
Vegan Foie Gras (A How-to)
The book is dying. The publishing industry is in decline. Or so we’re told by countless newspaper and magazine articles. Yet a glance at the bestseller lists makes one wonder:…
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