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A Jello Horse and Your Rightful Home

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Jello Horse, Alyssa Knickerbocker, Matthew Simmons, YOUR RIGHTFUL HOME on July 5, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Yesterday I read Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse (Publishing Genius, 2009), immediately after finishing Alyssa Knickerbocker’s Your Rightful Home (Flatmancrooked, 2010). I remember when A Jello Horse was first published. There was something about a bunch of telephones. There was that cover, which is not my copy’s cover (mine is the one with the pink and the [...]

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My Favorite Books from 2009 (in alphabetical order):

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Jello Horse, All Fall Down, All the Day’s Sad Stories, AM/PM, Amelia Gray, Ander Monson, Andrew Zornoza, Anne Michaels, Baby Leg, Brian Evenson, Can Xue, Changing, Chelsea Martin, David Shields, Dear Everybody, e.s.p., Easter Rabbit, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Eugene Lim, Eugene Marten, Everything Was Fine Until Whatever, Five Spice Street, Fog & Car, Fred Marchant, Fugue State, Gert Jonke, Greg Gerke, How Some People Like Their Eggs, Italo Calvino, Jackie Corley, jamie iredell, Jeremy Davies, Joanna Howard, Joanna Ruocco, John Dermot Woods, John Haskell, Joseph Young, Justin Sirois, Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Life Goes to the Movies, Light Boxes, Lily Hoang, Mary Caponegro, Matt Bell, Matthew Simmons, Michael Kimball, Michael Leong, Michal Ajvaz, Midnight Picnic, MLKNG SCKLS, Nick Antosca, Norman Lock, On the Winding Stair, One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, Peter Selgin, places & things, Prose. Poem. A Novel., Reality Hunger, Robert Lopez, Rose Alley, Sean Lovelace, Shadowplay, Shane Jones, Stephanie Johnson, The Bridge of the Golden Horn, The Collectors, The Complete Collection of People, The Complete Cosmicomics, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright, The Failure Six, The Looking House, The Mothering Coven, The Other City, The Suburban Swindle, The System of Vienna, The Way the Family Got Away, The Winter Vault, There’s Something Wrong with Sven, Tina May Hall, Vanishing Point, Waste, Where I Stay on December 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I’ve read over 120 books in 2009, and by the time the year is up I’ll have reviewed over fifty. At the risk of being redundant, I’ve put together a list of the books I thought were this year’s best. I’ve also included links to the ones I reviewed. But before that, I should mention [...]

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Powers of Attraction

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Jello Horse, Ander Monson, Matthew Simmons, Michael Carmichael, Roadside Attractions, Vanishing Point on December 23, 2009 | 15 Comments »

The narrator of Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse takes detours to odd roadside attractions. This aspect of the book reminded me of Tom Robbins’s Another Roadside Attraction. I’m in the middle of reading Ander Monson’s Vanishing Point and he, at one point, writes about roadside attractions:

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