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Come On All You Ghosts! (Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder)

After failing to secure a copy of said book at AWP, a certain TSHS member requested a copy of Matthew Zapruder‘s latest from Inter-Library Loan, then walked all the way [Read More]
Spring Review of Winter Stars (Winter Stars by Larry Levis)

Originally published in 1985, this collection by late poet Larry Levis deserves a fresh look right here right now: Reading Levis’ Winter Stars is such a consistently [Read More]

Favorite Poems: Islam, Hopkins

Neelanjana Banerjee and Frank Stewart At the 2015 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference this year, our team at tatestreet.org were excited to kick off a [Read More]
Favorite Poems: Browning, Keats
Favorite Poems: Hopkins, Dickinson
Favorite Poems: Wheatley, Carroll

A Prison Wherever He Turned (Stoner by John Williams)

July 22, 2017

The plot of John Williams’ 1965 novel, Stoner (NYRB Classics, 2006): Young man becomes assistant professor at University of Missouri, lives unhappy life, has undistinguished career, dies. You can hardly be blamed if you don’t find this particularly enticing, but make no mistake: Stoner (last name of the protagonist—sorry to disappoint) is a work of almost unbearable beauty. [Read More]
I’ll Come Back Once You’re Dead (Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanual Bove, trans. Alyson Waters)
So Fearsome a Blue; or, From Grandmother’s House We Go (Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter, trans. Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore)
The American Uncanny (American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen)

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