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Tag: Jesi Buell
“Cowboy Koans”: Jesi Buell Reviews Bipolar Cowboy by Noah Cicero
“When you see a pronghorn antelope from your car, high upnorth in Nevada, by the Walker River Rez, I don’t … More
“Repetition Is Magical”: Jesi Buell in Conversation with Candice Wuehle, author of FIDELITORIA: Fixed or Fluxed
Candice Wuehle’s most recent poetry collection FIDELITORIA: Fixed or Fluxed centers around the magical elements of our everyday lives. Through … More
“The Parts We Play”: Jesi Buell Reviews Theatrix, poetry plays by Terese Svoboda (Anhinga Press)
chance but a chainof electrons vibrating[almostendlessly] only error shitting life I watched Matthew Holness’ Possum right before I picked up … More
Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino, a new collection of short stories by Julián Herbert, reviewed by Jesi Buell (Graywolf Press)
I first became aware of Mexican author Julián Herbert when Graywolf published Christina MacSweeney’s translation of his novel Tomb Songs … More
“The Hypothetical Men Behind The Hypothetical Man”: Jesi Buell on a TRNSFR Books collaborative novel-in-stories by Paul Maliszewski & Ryan Weil (?)
In Buddhism, I have heard them refer to this as “monkey mind”—that endless chatter of what we are doing, what … More
“Hear the Chorus Underfoot”: Jesi Buell Reviews Alice Hatcher’s Novel The Wonder That Was Ours
“How hard a thing is life to the lowly,and yet how human and real!”—W. E. B. Du Bois The Wonder … More
“The Devil in the Details”: History and Myth in Lee Klein’s JRZDVLZ, a review by Jesi Buell
“Whoever languishes in thoughtful reenactmentof the past falls prey to cruel beasts.” —Lee Klein In his latest novel, Lee Klein introduces … More
“The Brilliant, Bright-Red Bowels of Bonnie Chau’s All Roads Lead to Blood”: A Review by Jesi Buell
The Wolf was a Wolf, and had an innate wolfishness, which manifested itself in his longing to devour The Pretty … More
“Master of the Concise”: Jesi Buell Reviews J. Bradley’s flash fiction collection Neil and Other Stories
Neil and Other Stories is a prepossessing examination of a parent’s influence on the internal life of their child. At … More