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Josh CookLife alongside books & other surprises from your friendly Midwestern dad. Gratuitously sincere, sometimes sassy.
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The Gap
I guess if you’re going to read a modern Norwegian classic, why not finish it on a Norwegian fjord?
In a January 2023 Oscar round-up, Richard Brody, film critic for The New Yorker, said, “I’m keeping my list in this fantasyland in order t...
Avoidance & Work
“You don’t have to pretend you’re not scared / Everyone else is just as terrified as you.”
— Courtney Barnett, “Charity”
I probably have this secret belief that if I read the right book or find the right story at the right time o...
No True Baller Ever Wants to be Pitied
I officially became a father when I started playing racquetball
Recently, after a spell of reading novels with low-stakes action and epistemological arcs—Transcription by Ben Lerner, A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba, and The Touch Syste...
Wild Things
When I first sat down to read Nora Lange’s debut novel, Us Fools, I didn’t get very far without texting friends. “Have you read this?” I asked. Whole pages and paragraphs had suffered marks and scribbles and exclamation points. The novel fo...
Twilight Zones
When I first discovered Ethan Rutherford’s work—some fifteen years ago—I was immediately reminded of Jim Shepard and Ursula K. Le Guin, writers with great formal and emotional range. The Peripatetic Coffin and Farthest South, his two story...
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Fiction writer, occasional teacher, & semi-retired critic. Writing appears in VQR, LARB, Washington Post, Iowa Review, & elsewhere. MFA from Pacific University.
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