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November 4, 2025 - Books, Reading, Review, Writing

Uncanny Humor: A Review of Robert Lopez’s The Best People

By Joe Sacksteder   In the 2001 black-and-white space cowboy musical, The American Astronaut, writer/director Cory McAbee sought to write…

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October 16, 2024July 16, 2025 - Books, Reading, Review, Small Presses, Writing

Dancing with the Big Impossibilities of Time, Presence, and Language: A Review of Lance Olsen’s Always Crashing in the Same Car

By Joe Sacksteder   One might hazard: Always Crashing : biography :: David Bowie : all other humans. But, no.…

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November 5, 2023October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

Misdirection as Mapping the Periphery: On Tobias Carroll’s Ex-Members

By Joe Sacksteder   Tobias Carroll’s new novel, Ex-Members, immerses readers in the punk scene of New Jersey in the…

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