Reviews
I do regular reviews of books, films, and other things, as either part of the 95 Books Challenge or for various publications. Here I’ve collected a variety of reviews, from careful discussions to flippant ephemera.
Books — alphabetical by last name or subject
Baldur’s Song: A Saga (David Arnason)
Pocket Pantheon (Alain Badiou)
Fatal Strategies (Jean Baudrillard)
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (Arnold Bennett)
The Case of Lena S. (David Bergen)
Ways of Seeing (John Berger)
Antwerp (Roberto Bolano)
Subtractions/22 Skiddo (Michael Boughn)
Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament (Eds. Stephen Brockwell and Stuart Ross)
Curious Men (Frank Buckland)
Declining America (Rob Budde)
Face (Melissa Buzzeo)
Your Novel Proposal: From Creation to Contract (Blythe Camenson & Marshall J. Cook)
Unpublished Manuscript (Natalee Caple)
On Writing Horror (Ed. Mort Castle)
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing along the Borderlands (Michael Chabon)
Hypoderm (Weyman Chan)
Dream Baby Dream: Images from the Blank Generation (Stephanie Chernikowski)
What Stirs (Margaret Christakos)
Gutted (Evie Christie)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
The Anger Scale (Katie Degentesh)
Point Omega (Don DeLillo)
How to Write for Television (Madeline DiMaggio)
Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Game Show Reversed (kevin mcpherson eckhoff)
Rhapsodomancy (kevin mcpherson eckhoff)
Transmetropolitan 1: Back on the Street (Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson)
Crafty TV Writing: Thinking Inside the Box (Alex Epstein)
Harmonics (Jesse Patrick Ferguson)
A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory (Robert Finley et al)
Odd and the Frost Giants (Neil Gaiman)
Whole Milk (Jim Goar)
Successful Television Writing (Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin)
Half World (Hiromi Goto)
Seven Good Reasons Not To Be Good (John Gould)
Crow Planet (Lyanda Lynn Haupt)
Cities of Refuge (Michael Helm)
Locke & Key 1: Welcome to Lovecraft (Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez)
Locke & Key 2: Head Games (Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez)
Anthropy (Ray Hsu)
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
Meow, Baby! (Jason)
Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (Ed. Bret Anthony Johnston)
Adaptation (Charlie Kaufman)
The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
Ur (Stephen King)
The Age of Spiritual Machines (Ray Kurzweil)
Names of the Lion (trans. David Larsen)
The Career Novelist (Donald Maass)
Mainstream (Michael Magee)
My Angie Dickinson (Michael Magee)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Child of God (Cormac McCarthy)
Sheep’s Vigil by a Fervent Person (Eirin Moure)
M (Jon J Muth)
At the Gates of the Theme Park (Peter Norman)
Social Acupuncture (Darren O’Donnell)
The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura)
Elimination Dance (Michael Ondaatje)
Hunk of Skin (Pablo Picasso)
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles (Steven Pressfield)
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (Philip Pullman)
Slip (Sina Queyras)
Teethmarks (Sina Queyras)
Man Ray (Aperture: Masters of Photography)
Man Ray / Surrealist Photography (Photofile)
The Sands of Dream (Therese Renaud)
The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories (Sinclair Ross)
A Little White Shadow (Mary Ruefle)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie)
Flashforward (Robert J. Sawyer)
Golden Fleece (Robert J. Sawyer)
Rollback (Robert J. Sawyer)
Metatropolis (ed. John Scalzi)
stone poems (Stephen Scobie)
This Way Out (Carmine Starnino)
Thing Feigned or Imagined: The Craft in Fiction (Fred Stenson)
On Love and Death (Patrick Suskind)
Rewrite Right! (Jan Venolia)
Four Stories (Sheila Watson)
The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (H. G. Wells)
The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets (ed. Zachariah Wells)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Orwell (Raymond Williams)
