Tag: Jonathan Blum
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Cassandra Luca Reviews Jonathan Blum’s short story collection THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES: “A richly detailed, mixed (and eyebrow-furrowing) bag”
Jonathan Blum’s short story collection, The Usual Uncertainties, is cohesive in that each story showcases his uncanny observations; a brief paragraph sketch of one character is enough to reveal their essence. Blum can do this for houses too: “The mossy gables, the exalted peeling cornices and pale shingled walls, the quiet inclining street near the…
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Last Word, a novella by Jonathan Blum, reviewed by Erin Flanagan
Set against the backdrop of changing technologies, cyber-bullying, and blended families, Jonathan Blum’s novella Last Word tells of Kip Langer and his son, Eric, as Kip attempts to understand a boy connected to him by blood and little else. Facing both a civil liberty negligence suit and his thirteen-year-old son’s expulsion from his Jewish middle…
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