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Summer of the Cinetherapist
My story “Summer of the Cinetherapist” was a runner-up in the 2011 Wisconsin People & Ideas short story contest and subsequently appeared in Rosebud Magazine (Autumn 2011). Now it’s a CBR Press...
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If I Could Tell You
If I Could Tell You Lee Jing-Jing Marshall Cavendish Editions 2013 Reviewed by Bob Wake From neglected children and lost young adults, to the developmentally disabled and the forgotten elderly, If I...
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The Tiger’s Wedding
The Tiger’s Wedding James Dante Martin Sisters Publishing 2013 Reviewed by Bob Wake “Moments of conventional bliss had a way of eluding me,” declares Jake St. Gregory, a young American accountant from...
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Fox 8: A Story
Fox 8: A Story George Saunders Random House 2013 Reviewed by Bob Wake According to the L.A. Times literary blog Jacket Copy, George Saunders chose to leave “Fox 8” out of his recently published...
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Europe Central
Europe Central William T. Vollmann Viking 2005 Reviewed by Bob Wake A recent painful outbreak of shingles on my left upper torso and back rendered me unfit for much of anything but Vicodin and bed rest...
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Nightmare Alley
Copyright litigation kept Nightmare Alley (1947) out of circulation and generally unavailable for home viewing until a much-heralded DVD release in 2005. Since then, its reputation has grown from cult...
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From Shame to Sin
From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity Kyle Harper Harvard University Press 2013 Reviewed by Bob Wake Kyle Harper’s From Shame to Sin: The Christian...
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Shotgun Lovesongs
Spent a pleasurable Sunday barnstorming through Nickolas Butler’s buzzworthy debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs. My baby boomer sensibilities detected a Big Chill for Millennials familiarity to some of the...
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The G.O.D. Club
Now Available from Cambridge Book Review Press The G.O.D. Club A Story by Dwight Allen $2.99 Kindle ebook “The G.O.D. Club” is a new short story by Dwight Allen, author of two novels, Judge (2003) and...
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Ad for “The G.O.D. Club” in Madison Magazine
Ad for The G.O.D. Club appears in the September 2014 issue of Madison Magazine.
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Antkind
Antkind Charlie Kaufman Random House 2020 Reviewed by Bob Wake At 720 pages, Antkind succeeds as a large-scale comic novel. This is an impressive feat for a first-time novelist (albeit a first-time...
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