Tag: Eric Andrew Newman

  • Hoopty Time Machines, fairy tales for grown-ups by Christopher DeWan, reviewed by Eric Andrew Newman

    Hoopty Time Machines, fairy tales for grown-ups by Christopher DeWan, reviewed by Eric Andrew Newman

    It’s very fitting that Christopher DeWan, the author if the new book Hoopty Time Machines, lives in Los Angeles. After all L.A., or La La Land as it’s also known, is the land of dreams and fairy tales. In his previous book, Working and Other Essays, there’s an essay in which DeWan references the permeability…

  • BATTLE RATTLE by Brandon Davis Jennings

    BATTLE RATTLE by Brandon Davis Jennings

    What Anthony Swofford’s Jarhead is to Operation Desert Storm, Brandon Davis Jennings’ Battle Rattle is to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Both books are a meditation on the experience of what it’s like to live through the thick smoke of war, while at the same time contemplating the disconnected alienness of returning to a home you no…