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Inside the Ordinary (reviews)

• Sync with the Inefficiencies of Time
  Sync with the Inefficiencies of Time: DarkViolin reviews The After Party, a poetry collection by Jana Prikryl.
• Acquiring Humility by Accident
  NY Times reviewer Gregory Cowles remembers the late Jim Harrison with a few sentences from Harrison's novella "The Ancient Minstrel (Grove Atlantic).
• You’ve Doubled Down on Extinction: Standout Blacklist Script by Dave Thomas
  Sometimes great writing lurks in otherwise ordinary landscapes. That was the case for the following speech by Raymond Reddington (James Spader) in a November 2015 episode of The Blacklist.
• Digitally Induced Affective Disorder and Possible Antidotes
  Share | Our attachment to digital forms of communication, especially smart phones, may be responsible for the emergence of symptoms that are strikingly similar to other affective disorders. To call it a Digitally Induced Affective Disorder (DIAD) is exaggeration, but not a casual one,  certainly not enough to keep this title from the top of a nonfiction must-read book […]
• The Earth’s Sweet Pull: Linda Gregerson’s Concision
  Share | A poetry collection of work spanning nearly nearly 40 years for any living poet deserves attention, but Prodigal (Martin Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) goes beyond satisfying collector lust. Linda Gregerson’s collection represents achievements of concision, owing to her tight verse construction and prosody, but the more enduring rewards are thematic. In “Good News,” […]