Tag: Bud Smith

  • Book Review: Shannon Wolf on Bud Smith’s novel Teenager

    Book Review: Shannon Wolf on Bud Smith’s novel Teenager

    Collectively, we’ve been obsessed with the Bonnie and Clyde narrative for decades. In the 1950s, we were a nation held captive by the spree killings of Charles Starkweather and his teenaged girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate in Nebraska and Wyoming. Those murders inspired the Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino collaboration Natural Born Killers in 1994. So,…

  • Dust Bunny City, prose poems by Bud Smith, reviewed by Michael Gillan Maxwell

    Dust Bunny City, prose poems by Bud Smith, reviewed by Michael Gillan Maxwell

    Dust Bunny City, Bud Smith’s latest collection of prose poems, is a wonderful collaboration with his wife, Rae Buleri, who illustrated the book. Organized in two sections, Tic Tac Toe and Orange Peel, the pieces unfold in a deliberate story arc sequenced like songs on a vinyl album. An album you’d flip over and listen…