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Diary of a Film (Hachette, 2021) is a novel about cinema, flâneurs, and queer love – it is about the sometimes troubled, sometimes ecstatic creative…
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Australian novelist Tim Winton, who has also written short stories, plays, children’s books and non-fiction, is the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Miles…
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The Casual Perfect by Lavinia Greenlaw Lavinia Greenlaw’s new collection glows with charm. In the title poem of her absorbing fourth collection, The Casual Perfect,…
![Review: Michael Longley's 'A Hundred Doors' by Sean O'Brien](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Longley_Flynn_52.jpg)
A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley Michael Longley’s reverence for the living and the dead is as evident as ever. The entirety of “Horseshoe”, from…
![Review: August Kleinzahler's 'Sleeping It Off in Rapid City' by Sean O'Brien](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/August-Kleinzahler-470x140.jpg)
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler Kleinzahler manages a convincing, grimly comic synthesis of materials in this collection of new and selected…
![Review: CK Williams' 'Wait' by Sean O'Brien](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CK-Williams-ed-470x140.jpg)
Wait by CK Williams CK Williams continues to search for the good in America. In “The Foundation” from Wait, CK Williams nominates Walt Whitman as a…
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