From: PopMatters
"Now enter Josh Davis and Pretendgeniuspress, an independent publishing company along the lines of City Lights and Sylvia Beach's legendary Shakespeare & Company, who gambled by publishing The Muse and The Mechanism in a time when thoughtful, even artful, literature has become increasingly marginalized. In The Muse and The Mechanism, Davis proves an exceptional prose stylist by alternating Hemingway-esque simplicity with Joycean beauty; although his prose manages to rise to great heights, the dichotomy of his simplicity/poetics never lowers itself to artificiality or contrivances, and he somehow, miraculously, avoids slipping into that dreaded state of pretentiousness...
"The Muse and the Mechanism excels at extolling the meandering nature of this generation; we are all rolling forward, often constantly wandering into the unknown, armed only with the hindsight of past failures and embarrassments. Our will to overcome our seemingly inherent lack of motivation vaguely lifts us and propels us forward, and it is that dichotomy -- the desire to do nothing and everything -- that Josh Davis, unlike his contemporaries, who seem to fall short, masterfully displays."
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Monday, March 28, 2005
Left of Center bookstore, Chicago
From: TimeOut
Arlene Levy doesn't like singling out a particular book or author as her favorite. Which is odd, considering the nickname she's given herself.
"I'm the Book Bitch," she says, chuckling. "I tell you what to read."
[...]
"When asked what she's read lately, Levy walks straight to the B's and pulls out Still Life in Motion by Sean Brijbasi."
Is that allowed under the Patriot Act? Watch that woman.
Arlene Levy doesn't like singling out a particular book or author as her favorite. Which is odd, considering the nickname she's given herself.
"I'm the Book Bitch," she says, chuckling. "I tell you what to read."
[...]
"When asked what she's read lately, Levy walks straight to the B's and pulls out Still Life in Motion by Sean Brijbasi."
Is that allowed under the Patriot Act? Watch that woman.
Friday, March 04, 2005
Reviews of The London Silence
From: AttackingtheDemi-Puppets
"Stephen Moran gives an atmospheric sense of both Ireland and London, showing a continuity with great Irish story writers of the past, in that the world since, as Moran portrays it-- aged, dingy, and impoverished-- hasn't changed all that much."
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stop press. stop, press again. stop. press. press. press. don't stop...
From: LauraHird.com
"All in all, both ‘The London Silence’ and Pretend Genius Press come with my sincerest recommendation. " (Neil Ayres)
"Stephen Moran gives an atmospheric sense of both Ireland and London, showing a continuity with great Irish story writers of the past, in that the world since, as Moran portrays it-- aged, dingy, and impoverished-- hasn't changed all that much."
_________
stop press. stop, press again. stop. press. press. press. don't stop...
From: LauraHird.com
"All in all, both ‘The London Silence’ and Pretend Genius Press come with my sincerest recommendation. " (Neil Ayres)
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