Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works

by Tillie Olsen
Reviewed in The Literarian

“I cried for all the culmination of chance events, all the
wrong and right turns, the happenstances, the recognition of the importance of
what is, the immediate and deliberate decisions, the random bits of
conversation, the crossing of paths, the unlikely encounters, the impossibility
of the discovery of a forty-year old magazine in a flea market bin, the books
that happened to be in a particular library at a precise moment Tillie Olsen
happened by, the accumulated consciousness, the ruminations, the overcoming,
the struggle for time, the utter unlikelihood and impossibility of all the
moments and memories coalescing, lining up, and becoming the words on paper
that became the collection of stories Tell Me a Riddle.”
-Katherine Arnoldi
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Fetish
by Orlando Ricardo Menes
Interviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books

“My interest in the word “fetish” is in how it can denote or
mark the idea of attraction in the broadest sense of the term: attraction to
other human beings, especially the Other, to nature, to the sacred, to the
past, to music and art, etc.  The word
possesses a disquieting edginess — a disturbing allure — that I find productive
to my poetics.”
-Daniel Olivas
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Wide Open Fairways

A Journey across the Landscapes of Modern Golf
by Bradley Klein
Reviewed on Wisgolfer.com

“His exploration on golf in Nebraska – Willa Cather country,
he calls it, after the author who wrote so eloquently about the hardships of
life in a beautiful rural setting – illustrates perfectly what Klein means in
calling “the experience of place” crucial to the golf experience. Sand Hills GC
in Mullen, the much-lauded creation of Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, is located
pretty much in the middle of nowhere, reached only by a 55-mile drive from
North Platte, more frontier outpost than country club.”
-Dennis McCann
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Billy “the Hill” and the Jump Hook
The Autobiography of a Forgotten Basketball Legend
by Billy McGill and Eric Brach
Reviewed in Booklist

“Now in his seventies, McGill looks back on a career that
fizzled due to circumstance, injury, and inability to adjust to the more
physical pro game. McGill takes responsibility when it’s appropriate but also,
through the prism of time, points to the situations that were beyond his
control.”
-Wes Lukowsky