Category: Recommendations
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New Music Crush
Robyn is weird. I barely remember her former early 90’s self, which was largely forgettable over-produced, mediocre dance music/love ballads that sounded like the dance music/love ballads of the time. But thanks to the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live, I was turned on to Robyn’s reinvented contemporary self, and she made some really…
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Map for a Forgotten Valley and 631
Dear Locals (and those traveling nearby) who will be around Youngstown on February 15th. I am giving a reading from my series of creative nonfiction vignettes called “Map for a Forgotten Valley”, along with a showing of Derek Jones’ short film “631”. Here is a blurb of what the evening will look like. Please click…
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This Year/New Year
Happy New Year to everyone! I’m excited to start over, however arbitrary a choice in time to do so it is, or perhaps however traditional/stereotypical a time it is to start anew, and look forward to a year of pursuing new writing, new relationships, new growth in myriad dimensions (I’m considering a move to an…
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Holiday
Last minute shoppers, looking for a good book to give at the holidays? Take a chance on M. Rickert’s new short story collection, Holiday. Mary Rickert’s stories are absolutely full of wonder and frightening circumstances, sometimes creepy and other times sad or joyful. She’s one of the best short story writers out there, period, in…
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Introducing “jenny”
“jenny” is something my students in the Literary Arts Association at YSU have been busily preparing as a new online literary magazine. This is a radically energetic and creative group of students, and I’m really proud to be working with them as they put together something new and electric like this. Please take a look…