by 4thgenre | May 28, 2022 | Craft Essay
A Dash of Dash The Lyric Art of Punctuation With Apologies to Noah Lukeman Before evolving to mark syntax for you, silent reader—hearing these lines in your head, perhaps in a version of your own voice, or perhaps one you’ve invented to suit me (how do I sound to...
by 4thgenre | Oct 23, 2021 | Interview
How the Light Gets In An Interview with Amy Wright Paper Concert: A Conversation in the RoundBy Amy Wright188 pp. Sarabande Books, $16.95Released August 2021 Last Friday night I walked down to the brewhouse beside the railroad tracks, attracted by the flash and oomph...
by 4thgenre | Oct 9, 2021 | Review
Who Do We Talk To? Memoir’s Multivisionary Perspective The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being HereBy Susanne Paola Antonetta260 pp. Mad Creek Books, $22.95Released February 2021 Where We SwimBy Ingrid Horrocks224 pp. Victoria University Press, $35.00Released...
by 4thgenre | Sep 14, 2021 | Review
To Limit Is to Define Mario Aquilina’s New Anthology The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics and FormBy Marion Aquilina264 pp. Bloomsbury Academic, $39.95Released April 2021 If, as Oscar Wilde’s aphorism goes, to define is to limit, then it follows that every...
by 4thgenre | Jul 9, 2021 | Review
A Full Embrace of the Wandering Mind On Rick Bailey’s Essays Get Thee to a Bakery: EssaysBy Rick Bailey228 pp. University of Nebraska Press, $19.95Released March 2021 I’ve often heard that a good writer can write about anything and make it interesting for a...
