The Belly Tract #1
reviewed by Ryan Gleason
Issue No. 177 ~ February, 2012
This is my new column. It resembles the inside of my belly.
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by Ryan Gleason
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2666
reviewed by Ryan Gleason
Issue No. 158 ~ July, 2010
Roberto Bolaño’s final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. It’s the kind of work that possesses a staggering amount of angles, gliding through time periods, characters, both widespread and intimate violence, sexuality, and Bolaño’s expertise, the imagining and dismantling of artists.
One on One
Brenda Eisenberg
interviewed by Ryan Gleason
Issue No. 158 ~ July, 2010
This feels like an important story to write. For one thing, it offers a fresh angle on the apartheid story, through the eyes of a young orthodox Jew. But also, it looks at powerlessness in the face of a system you feel you can’t change and how young people turn to extreme solutions when they experience that impotence.
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Impressions of Poetry on the Internet
by Ryan Gleason
Issue No. 167 ~ April, 2011
It’s the Internet! Poetry is the scripture in the temple!
Literature, The Northwest, and Me
by Ryan Gleason
Issue No. 161 ~ October, 2010
My finger drifts along the books’ spines. I insist on being casual, skimming through hundreds of alphabetized names and titles as though they were one relentless, underwhelming sentence.