In his debut novel, The Midnight Man, David Eric Tomlinson weaves basketball, law enforcement, self-realization, and the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building into a tapestry of Oklahoma culture and attitudes. The unexpected intersection of such diverse lives gives us a glimpse of what we can learn from each other if we keep ourselves open to possibilities. From K.L. Romo’s review at The Writers’ League of Texas. Read the full review here.
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Joe Milazzo’s “Crepuscule w/Nellie”
Dallas native Joe Milazzo’s new novel Crepuscule w/Nellie is an inspired work of art, a “speculative historical fiction” twenty years in the making, and the book deserves a wider audience than it will get. Titled after the jazz standard of the same name – a song composed by the famously idiosyncratic pianist Thelonious Monk, while his wife Nellie was undergoing treatment for a thyroid disorder – the novel imagines itself into the uncomfortable love and economic triangle existing between Monk, Nellie, and their benefactor, the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. The story is, like Monk’s work, unique – strange, dissonant, profane,…
A Post-Graduate DIY MFA Reading List
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Another reading list for another novel.
DIY MFA Reading List: “Geronimo Rex” by Barry Hannah
Barry Hannah sings a drunken ode to youth, beauty and the power of language.
DIY MFA Reading List: “Disgrace” by J.M. Coetzee
South Africa after apartheid is no country for old men in J.M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace”
DIY MFA Reading List: “Escapes” by Joy Williams
Joy Williams’ characters practice enlightenment by exclusion in this sad, sparse collection of short stories.