Monday, October 5th, 2009
MODERN LIFE by Matthea Harvey
Review by Greg Weiss MODERN LIFE by Matthea Harvey Graywolf Press 2402 University Avenue, Suite 203 Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 ISBN 978-1-55597-480-0 2007, 80pp., $14.00 www.graywolfpress.org Modern Life is distinctive, intelligent, and well-written, but something is missing from it. In his back-jacket blurb, George Saunders writes: “Matthea Harvey’s vision of America is spooky, apocalyptic, and [...]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
HALFLIFE by Meghan O’Rourke
Review by Greg Weiss (email) HALFLIFE by Meghan O’Rourke W.W. Norton 500 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10110 ISBN: 978-0-393-06475-9 87 pp., $23.95 www.wwnorton.com When you Google-search “Meghan O’Rourke,” the first result is the transcript of a 2006 interview with David Baker, the poetry editor of The Kenyon Review. The interview was occasioned by the [...]
