Lush Life by Richard Price
Book Punch has enjoyed its collaboration with the students in the creative writing program at Butler University. It’s exciting to end this semester with the book that started Book Punch back in March,...
View ArticleBrown by Richard Rodriguez
Brown is a study. It is less of a narrative than it is an image of refracted light, an examination of angles. Not to offend Rodriguez—associating him immediately with an artistic movement pioneered by...
View ArticleOf Jibaros and Hillbillies by Ricardo Nazario y Colon
People and place are as tied together as any two things can be. If you doubt that, drive across the country. Observe region and language and food. Better yet, go to an entirely different nation. Places...
View ArticleCovet by Lynnell Edwards
Covet is a verb. It’s active. Here, in these poems, it’s also a constant choice. And then, you realize that most emotions–most reactions–are choices. Choose to be angry, or don’t. Choose to be content,...
View ArticleRadio Golf by August Wilson
This is August Wilson’s last play in his impressive cycle of ten, documenting life in twentieth century America, particularly for African Americans. If you’ve never read a play, read this play. It’s a...
View ArticleThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Let it be known: there’s nothing pretty about cancer. We find hope in the hearts of its victims, in their battles, their narratives. Hope for survivors, for the spectacle of life as aprocess with which...
View ArticleSeeing Stars by Simon Armitage
You know waking up from dreams–not necessarily good or bad–and having that, “Wow, I didn’t know my imagination was capable of that,” feeling? Like, the kind of dreams that are reassuring just in their...
View ArticleThe Deer Park by Norman Mailer
Mailer proves you don’t have to utter a word to lie to a lover. Plenty, however, is said. We are in Desert D’Or, Mailer’s fictional get-away town for Hollywood’s royalty and wash-ups, set in the...
View ArticleShoplifting From American Apparel by Tao Lin
On the back of this book, it says, “The inmate with a mop / held back the inmate / without a mop.” I almost feel like I shouldn’t say anything else about this book, but I will. It has very little to do...
View ArticleWe’ve Moved!
Check us out at Ringside Reviews from now on. We’ll get this re-direct figured out eventually…
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