Harmonics (Jesse Patrick Ferguson)

Harmonics surprised me. I thought I knew Ferguson’s work, from my time editing dandelion, where I published his visual poetry, some of which I used for one of the journal’s more eye-catching covers. When a friend at Freehand said she had acquired his first book of poetry, I assumed too much. I assumed that the […]

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The Gap of Time (Jeanette Winterson)

2016 marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and to celebrate his legacy the Hogarth Press commissioned novelists to reinvent Shakespeare’s plays for the modern reader. Jeanette Winterson tackles The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s stranger plays, in The Gap of Time. The original play revolves around a jealous king disowning his daughter (he believes […]

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You Can Read #95BOOKS This Year

The following is an excerpt from my free eBook YOU CAN READ #95BOOKS THIS YEAR — sign up for the full eBook and consider joining the #95books challenge in 2018!!! I’ve also created a new website, 95BOOKS.com, filled with book reviews/recommendations. Sign up for a FREE ebook of reading tips — “YOU CAN READ #95BOOKS […]

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