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Josh CookLife alongside books & other surprises from your friendly Midwestern dad. Gratuitously sincere, sometimes sassy.
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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...
Wonder Bread
“My friend Michael” is an oft-repeated phrase here, and yes, this is that Micheal, who hopefully doesn’t need much of an introduction at this point. But if you’re newer here, you’ll want to explore a few things he’s written, like this essay...
The Protest Singer
My Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club met a few nights ago in south Minneapolis, eating tacos from a nearby Mexican grocer. We have no clear leaders or facilitators. Nobody comes prepared with questions. We rotate who picks the book and who hosts, and...
Year in Reading, Part II
Christopher Pearse Cranch illustration to Emerson's “Transparent Eyeball” found in Nature.
I’ve always imagined book(ish) as a place where lots of different people can gather — friends, acquaintances, enthusiastic readers, casual readers,...
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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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