The last segment for 2011. For the full list, see 2011 Books Read.

126. The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides

Centres around Madeleine Hanna, an English major in an on-again-off-again relationship with Leonard Morten (who may or may not be David Foster Wallace), much to the chagrin of Mitchell Grammaticus, who’s in love with fair Madeleine.

It received mixed reviews, but I had fun with it. I like lit crit, deconstructionist thought, and spiritual ambiguity. Continue reading »

The latest issue of Witches & Pagans, # 24, contains my review of Loneliness and Revelation, by Brendan Cathbad Myers.

Witches & Pagans is an alternative spirituality magazine with a focus on nature based religions, especially on Wicca and Paganism. The current issue takes Heathen and Northern Traditions as its theme.

If you’re interested in learning more you can check out their website, or  subscribe here.

In addition to its usual excellent content,⁽¹⁾ issue 54 of Broken Pencil contains two reviews from me, which I’m super excited about.

The first review is of Afflictions & Departures, by Madeline Sonik. Part memoir, part history, I later learned it was nominated as a finalist for the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction. Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary ended up claiming the prize, but Sonik was in excellent company.

The second review is of Stephen Cain’s I Can Say Interpellation!, a collection of children’s rhymes rewritten as politically charged poems. Neat stuff.⁽²⁾

It’s a great magazine, check it out!

Footnotes:

1. Especially check out “Zine vs. Art”, by Laura Trethewey, which explores what amounts to the gentrification of the zine scene. [↩]
2. Stephen Cain seemed like it! [↩]