California Literary Review

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Miriam the Medium
Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance

Articles written for the California Literary Review:

• In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
  Posted on 05 Nov 2009 in Biography, Movies, Non-Fiction Reviews
  

  Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man that the moment he appeared in public, somebody whipped out an instrument and began playing the theme song. When an organ-grinder began playing the theme while Chris and Orson were crossing Piccadilly Circus, Orson had had it with London. His driver took them way out in the country to picnic in an isolated spot surrounded by hedges. A man on a bicycle saw them, stopped short, and suddenly whipped out his harmonica to play The Third Man theme song.

• Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
  Posted on 09 Sep 2009 in Fiction Reviews, Graphic Novels
  

  But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,” and shots and enemas and even treating David’s sore throats and sinus condition with radiation, his escape is just another trap. The quiet horror of the cropped image of David’s face, just his eyes, nose, and part of his mouth, seen as he might have seen himself while lying on a table, looking up at his reflection in the metal surface of a piece of medical equipment, will stay with you long after you finish the book.

• The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
  Posted on 07 Jul 2009 in Fiction Reviews, Pakistan
  

  The personal suffering always hinges on the political. When Daadi was a little girl, her best friend and next door neighbor, a Hindu girl named Amrita, is forced to flee with her family because of the violence that broke out between Hindus and Muslims. And Zakia’s father, who emigrated from India because his mother decided to, was forced to live in a refugee camp in Pakistan and all his degrees were worth nothing. He was discriminated against for the rest of his days.