Tag: Book Reviews
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D. Harlan Wilson’s excellent book on J. G. Ballard
Book review by Bill Ectric, published on 03/01/2018 on this website. D. Harlan Wilson has made a literary mark in the field of cultural theory, focusing on the loss of humanity in the inescapable rush of accelerating technology, with books like Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction and Cultographies: They Live. While his fiction tends…
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Dead Men Naked, Book Review
Dead Men Naked, a novel by Dario Cannizzaro Review by Bill Ectric Dead Men Naked is the best novel I’ve read in while, satisfying to the end. All too often, books with supernatural overtones veer into preposterous territory, but not this one. Author Dario Cannizzaro achieves a near-perfect balance of realism and phantasm, humor and…
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A Psychological Drama set in France: Stranger Days by Rachel Kendall
My book review of Rachel Kendall’s Stranger Days is on Empty Mirror. I’m happy to report that Rachel Kendall does an exceptional job of keeping her novel, Stranger Days, fresh, fun and riveting. Kendall doesn’t shy away from the usual intrigue and romance of Paris, but she does it so well, Stranger Days is a…
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Galapagos Regained Reviewed
Galapagos Regained by James Morrow Review by Bill Ectric James Morrow James Morrow writes with a great sense of fun and wonder. In Galapagos Regained, he regales us with a surreal 1850s adventure that is equal parts historical fiction, metaphysical treatise, and Pirates of the Caribbean spree. Fictional characters interact with actual historical…
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Fortean Melancholia and Paranormal Mourning
Many thanks to Andrew Wenaus for his review of my novel, Tamper! Tamper is like the Hardy Boys in that it is a kind of mystery novel in clear/concise language, and it is like (William S.) Burroughs in the sense that there is a presiding desire to break free of some kind of invisible system…
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Wadsworth Camp Revisited
I’m happy to know someone besides me is writing about Charles Wadsworth Camp, even if it was three years ago and I just found it yesterday. Here’s a review by Mary Reed of Camp’s novel, The Abandoned Room, courtesy of The Mystery File. And in case you missed it, here are the results, so far, of my research. It’s not…
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Peering Behind Childhood’s Curtain: Eric Lehman Reviews Kerouac’s “Dr. Sax”
University of Bridgeport English Professor Eric D. Lehman reviews Jack Kerouac’s Dr. Sax on Empty Mirror Books: “Dr. Sax is one of Jack Kerouac’s most troubling books for readers, peering behind the curtain of his childhood rather than exploring those later years of Beats and bodhisattvas. Nevertheless, it remains a startling achievement, unique not only among Kerouac’s works, but among…