Stories By Garan Holcombe
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Fiction Reviews
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell
June 21, 2022Hobbie suffers from acne vulgaris, which has forced him into a retreat from life. ‘Other than...
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Fiction Reviews
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
June 18, 2022There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
What is intelligence? by James R. Flynn
June 18, 2022‘The Flynn Effect’ was the phrase Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray coined in their book...
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Crime Fiction
Noogie’s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel
June 14, 2022One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine...
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Fiction Reviews
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
June 13, 2022The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is...
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Fiction Reviews
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
June 13, 2022The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...
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Fiction Reviews
So Many Ways To Begin by Jon McGregor
June 10, 2022David and Eleanor’s story is an unremarkable one. But their ordinary disappointments and frustrations are precisely...
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Biography
A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
October 29, 2021Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
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Biography
Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
October 28, 2021Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...
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Movies
Spanish Cinema: Almodóvar and Amenábar
October 26, 2021With camp, hedonistic and sexually vulgar films, notable for their strong, flamboyant women and their comic,...