REINVENTING POSTMODERNISM: A REVIEW OF CHARLES YU’S “INTERIOR CHINATOWN” JULY 28, 2020by KURT BAUMEISTER Once upon a time, when postmodernism was … Continue reading Vol. 1 Brooklyn: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown Reviewed by Kurt Baumeister
TNB Book Review: Teddy Wayne’s Apartment , reviewed by Kurt Baumeister By Kurt Baumeister July 09, 2020 Fiction Reviews On its surface, Teddy … Continue reading TNB Book Review: Teddy Wayne’s Apartment Reviewed by Kurt Baumeister
The Once and Future Queen: Amber Sparks’s Weird Realism By Kurt Baumeister Amber SparksAnd I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and … Continue reading The Brooklyn Rail: And I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks
Mark Doten’s Trump Sky Alpha Doten combines a genius for fictive architecture with dazzling prose By Kurt Baumeister MARK DOTEN Trump Sky … Continue reading The Brooklyn Rail: Trump Sky Alpha by Mark Doten
written by Kurt Baumeister September 13, 2019 Intro Wherein Chuck Greaves praises the erudition of Rex Stout, David Abrams hails Agatha Christie’s … Continue reading Under the Influence #14, Peace
written by Kurt Baumeister August 12, 2019 Intro Wherein Robert Burke Warren praises the magical minimalism of Alice Munro; Gregory Spatz reflects … Continue reading Under the Influence #13
written by Kurt Baumeister July 9, 2019 Intro Wherein Jamie Blaine celebrates the grit of Raymond Chandler, Jesi Bender praises the prose … Continue reading Under the Influence #12
written by Kurt Baumeister June 13, 2019 Intro Wherein Constance Squires shares how Iris Murdoch taught her not to be afraid of … Continue reading Under the Influence #11
written by Kurt Baumeister May 10, 2019 (Originial publication at Entropy Magazine) Intro Wherein triple threat (writer/editor/bookseller) Kevin Sampsell praises the humor … Continue reading Under the Influence #10, Taste
TNB Book Review: Gabino Iglesias’s Coyote Songs, reviewd by Kurt Baumeister By Kurt Baumeister November 13, 2018 Fiction Reviews America today is … Continue reading TNB Book Review: Gabino Iglesias’s Coyote Songs, reviewd by Kurt Baumeister