Machine Writing
Volume 35, Number 2
January-February 2014
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Steve Tomasula’s Introduction to Focus: “00.0 Machine Writing”
Mark C. Marino reviews Nick Montfort’s Taroko Gorge and ppg256
Rita Raley reviews Nick Thurston’s Of the Subcontract: Or Principles of Poetic Right
Jessica Pressman reviews Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse’s Between Page and Screen
Susan Vanderborg reviews Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry’s apostrophe
Feature: Neo-Novellas; Personal Jesus
Joseph Bates reviews Nick Ripatrazone’s This Darksome Burn
Elizabeth J. Colen reviews Kelcey Parker’s Liliane’s Balcony: A Novella of Fallingwater
Alain Arias-Misson reviews Yuriy Tarnawsky’s The Placebo Effect Trilogy
Jessica Berger reviews Colin Winnette’s Fondly
Lynn Pruett reviews Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses
Anthony Uhlmann reviews J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus
John Bell reviews Monique Ingalls, et al, eds., Christian Congregational Music
Book Reviews
Thomas Larson reviews G. Thomas Couser’s Memoir: An Introduction
John Tytell reviews Glenn O’Brien, ed., The Cool School: Writing from America’s Underground
Kyle Minor reviews Steve Davenport’s Overpass
Beth McDermott reviews Claire L. Martin’s Eating the Heart First
Brooke Wonders reviews Micah Dean Hicks’s Electricity and Other Dreams
Ken Jones reviews Harold Jaffe’s Paris 60
Hasanthika Sirisena reviews Burt Kimmelman’s Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems
Rosalie Calabrese reviews Hannah S. Hess’s Honest Deceptions
CL Bledsoe reviews Steve Yates’s Some Kinds of Love: Stories
Daniel Green reviews Davis Scheiderman’s [SIC]
Daniel Leary reviews David Joel Friedman’s Soldier Quick with Rain
Valerie Bandura reviews Matthew Lippman’s American Chew
Alex DeBonis reviews Jim Gavin’s Middle Men
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