Book of the Month – Thin Kimono by Michael Earl Craig
This month’s feature is a limited, first edition hardcover of Thin Kimono by my favorite Livingston poet (with apologies to myself). He’s also my favorite farrier, though to be fair, I only know two and the other one is Earl’s apprentice. One doesn’t so much read a Craig poem as one ricochets through it, bouncing […]
Marc’s Favorite Road Books
A woman came into the bookstore the other day asking about Woody Guthrie’s Bound for Glory. She said she was traveling and wanted some good road books. We didn’t have it, so she settled on Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley. However, she got me thinking about all the great road books out there, as well as […]
Book of the Month – The Odds Against Me by John Scarne
I used to life above a former firehouse with a magician. No, that’s not the first line of a joke. We rented an apartment on the top floor above what was then being used as a studio for yoga, aerobics, and (apparently) neo-pagan womyn’s rituals. Meanwhile, we were upstairs; me working on a manuscript that […]
Book of the Month – Catcher in the Rye
This month we feature a beautiful edition of a perennial classic, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye — the book that inspired countless writers of anti-hero, youth angst novels, everything from The Bell Jar to Less than Zero (and, of course, CIA-programmed assassins). You probably read it when you were about Holden’s age, if not, […]
Book Review of Mike Palecek’s JOHNNY MOON
Mike Palecek is an independent journalist, radical novelist and political activist who I met years ago at a reading event at The 303 back in Saginaw, Michigan. His website and podcast is http://newamericandream.net/ and you can read more about his latest novel, Johnny Moon here. Below is my review of Johnny Moon. ~Marc Mixing absurdist […]
