A Year in Reading: Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
The Year (More or Less) in Reading
My fairly new home of Portland threads through this note (which in editing looks more like an unintentional literary travelogue), so I’ll start my reflection on standout reads of the past year locally with ’s . As with , he shows his ability to write heartaching prose while casually inserting the spectral, the surreal into the everyday. And more of that everyday appears in ’s , a collection that reads like writing in this new millennium with a bit of encouragement from Johnson. Butk’s advice to . You should, too.
