June 26, 2018
The Experiments: A Legend in Pictures and Words by Rachel May (Dusie, 2015) If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow? Pokeweed. Pokeweed berries have been used to make ink and fabric dye for centuries. Like May's flash fiction, they are humble in origin but produce rich colors. I imagine if you dug up the book again, the pages would be vampire purple. What book is this book's ...
June 18, 2018
Chet’la Sebree At a Dinner Party for White (Wo)men [T]he other plates are creatively imagined vaginas…The Sojourner Truth plate is the only one in the collection that shows—instead of a vagina—a face. Alice Walker, in response to Judy Chicago’s 1970 exhibit The Dinner Party Everyone else is invited to meet their vaginas— different denominations and ...
June 14, 2018
Three Minute Review: Burgess on Jackson The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2017) 1.) What book is this book’s frenemy? They’re all the other books about small, quirky southern towns where everyone knows who just clipped their toenails and how short. While Joshilyn Jackson’s The Almost Sisters (Harper Collins 2017) shares some DNA with those books, it doesn’t feel ...
June 09, 2018
Lily Hoang On the Fatal Effects of Female Curiosity and Disobedience [Exhibit A] It is not a box but a jar. This is a mistake in translation that doesn’t much matter. * Prometheus was not curious. He was a thief. This is a crime and so he is punished, duly. * Zeus tells Hephaestus and Athene to build the first woman from the moist soil of earth, and each god ...