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Do you create filler or something more?

April 10, 2015April 10, 2015 by Nick Owchar, posted in Askold Melnyczuk, Book reviews, Los Angeles Review of Books

Some essential reading for you: The opening section of a review of Alejandro Jodorowsky's novel Where the Bird Sings Best in the Los Angeles Review of Books is a writer's call to action. Call of the Siren does its best in various posts to ask you to consider the questions, Why do I write? … Continue reading Do you create filler or something more?

Chronicle of a death retold

April 6, 2015April 6, 2015 by Nick Owchar, posted in Barry Strauss, Book reviews, Los Angeles Review of Books

I thought my old employer might ask me to review for them, but the Los Angeles Review of Books beat them to it ... and I couldn't be happier. I had a chance to really stretch out in the LARB in a review of Barry Strauss' retelling of the greatest assassination of the Roman … Continue reading Chronicle of a death retold

Two for the new year … woof!

January 17, 2015 by Nick Owchar, posted in Book reviews, Books, Clemens Setz, Daniel Galera, Penguin Press, W.W. Norton, Writing

Two novels that arrived in the mail made me think, almost instantly, of the oddest pairing: Mark Haddon's Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Carolyn Parkhurst's Dogs of Babel. To be honest, it's not the canine connection that made me pair these two books. It's something else: the fact that both freshen the … Continue reading Two for the new year … woof!