Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
Sunday, November 3, 2024
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
The Day of Atonement
"Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death. In this place, we were always fasting. It was Yom Kippur year-round. But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing his praises.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
election long-form
On the impending election, among other articles, tweets, and asides, I've read The New Yorker's "Can Harris Stop Blue-Collar Workers from Defecting to Donald Trump?" and Vanity Fair's James Pogue piece: "Steve Bannon Has Called his 'Army' to Do Battle—No Matter Who Wins in November."
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Book Reviews for Fight for Your Long Day
Genealogies of Modernity " Fight for Your Long Loud Laughs " by Jeffrey Wald at Genealogies of Modernity (January 2022) The Chron...
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Iain Levison's Dog Eats Dog was published in October, 2008 by Bitter Lemon Press and his even newer novel How to Rob an Armored Car ...
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Book Reviews: "The Teaching Life as a House of Troubles," by Don Riggs, American, British and Canadian Studies , June 1, 2017 ...
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In theory, a book isn't alive unless it's snuggled comfortably in the reading bin in the bathroom at Oprah's or any sitting Pres...
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Michael James Rizza on Cartilage and Skin : I started Cartilage and Skin in 1998. When I went to South Carolina in 2004, I had a complete...
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Beating Windward Press to Publish Alex Kudera’s Tragicomic Novel Illustrating Precarious Times for College Adjuncts and Contract-Wage Ame...