Table Talk & Second Thoughts: A Memoir in Flashes by Michael Martone
Enjoying Michael Martone's Table Talk & Second Thoughts (2025), a delightful memoir in flashes released from Cornerstone Press. The opening piece, "Trains: Tuscaloosa, 2010," recounts a moment that Martone shared with Adrienne Rich two years before her death: "She asked about the train trestle she'd seen crossing the Black Warrior ... Read More
The Semplica Girl Diaries | Recommended by Nathan Tavares
"The Semplica Girl Diaries." This is such a tightrope walk of grim humor and sadness. The story also contains one of the weirdest (and weirdly moving) examples of "people as commodities" that you can think of. "The Semplica Girl Diaries" can be found in The New Yorker. Also found in his short ... Read More
Politics and Prose Review Pick of the Week | Rae Bryant’s Review of George Saunders’ TENTH OF DECEMBER
Chosen as an exemplary work in critical review by The Washington Independent Review of Books and Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C., our editor in chief, Rae Bryant and her review of George Saunders' recently released collection, Tenth of December (Random House), will be promoted at Politics & Prose ... Read More