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John Chrostek
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October 2022
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Boxcutters
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Feast of the Pale Leviathan
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"kind of amazing cosby’s ability to seamlessly blend hot button social issues with violent pulpy page turners. here he takes on the racism and homosexuality in the most mainstream of liberal framings but set against the grisly revenge saga, the narrat"
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"First of all, I love this title. I also love how well this book balances taking us on a funny, gross, and fun-as-hell ride while also inspiring big, relatable feelings about the American healthcare system, toxic bosses, and equally-toxic family membe"
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| A beautiful, restrained novella about loss and love in a broken world. Darting between past and present, between the two tragic lovers, it explores the tragic, on-the-surface disgusting act of eating your dead lover in order to carry them with you in ...more | |
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| Carnalis by Tiffany Morris tells the story of a queer, orphaned indigenous dancer in Toronto who suffers an injury and faces a deep fracture from the life she built for herself. Her only comfort is her girlfriend, a wealthy, beautiful white woman reb ...more | |
"i anticipated this installment to be the weakest of the three i’ve read so far and was proven mostly right. what propelled me through the sloggy bits (jeez florence was fucking boring!) was the hope that the author would deliver in the final pages, w"
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| Xu Zechen’s novel Night Train, translated by Jeremy Tiang, is a rich, propulsive Dostoyevskian story of small town Chinese life, the labyrinthine politics of higher education and the expectations and histories that flow together to lead us to our bre ...more | |
“I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.”
― The Hearing Trumpet
― The Hearing Trumpet
“If I remember correctly writers usually find some excuse for their books, although why one should excuse oneself for having such a quiet and peaceful occupation I really don't know. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
― The Hearing Trumpet
― The Hearing Trumpet