You don’t need to have any expert background in psychoanalysis, or in psychology, to appreciate the way Skorczewski puts together an intriguing narrative out of Anne Sexton’s therapy tapes. Sexton hadn’t been writing for a decade when she began therapy with Dr. Martin T. Orne, and he encouraged her to start again. She was 28 …
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Apr 24
Review of Lonesome Animals on House of Crime and Mystery
Blurb: “This is a book that is destined to become an important piece of American Literature.” Link: HouseofCrimeandMystery
Apr 24
Daniel Pyne on the Adam Carolla show
Listen to the podcast of the show here: http://www.adamcarolla.com/daniel-pyne/
Apr 24
Echo Park Is Equal Parts Indie & Hip-Hop
The word on the street is that Vanilla Ice just moved to Echo Park to achieve some “indie cred.” The fact that I cannot determine whether or not this is a joke is perhaps just the right degree of irony that is compulsory for the average hipster brain inhabiting this east of Silver Lake, west …
Apr 11
Review of Every Night is a Saturday Night on Publishers Weekly
Blurb: “Though the wild stories make for a fun read, Keys’s charming humanity and love of music make this rock ‘n’ roll bio stand out.” For the full review, visit: PublishersWeekly.com
Apr 11
Belo Cipriani on Being A Good Man…
“Our fast paced world makes us all a bit impatient from time to time. This leads to the inability to keep or maintain hope. I believe that a good man is one who is able to create hope for himself on a daily basis—despite modern inconveniences. What makes this a challenging task is that creating …
Apr 11
Caroline Leavitt interviews Dawn Skorczewski about Anne Sexton’s therapy tapes, psychotherapy yesterday and today, much more…
Excerpt: What first drew you to Anne Sexton? I was first interested in Anne Sexton because I was certain, from reading her poems, that she was an incest survivor. My mother’s own history dovetailed with hers, and so my first journey to Sexton was to find my own history and to connect with my mother’s …
Apr 06
Review of A Hole In The Ground Owned by a Liar by Daniel Pyne in Unabridged Chick
Excerpt: “To my (chagrined!) surprise, I loved this book. It’s darkly funny, with all these weirdly unlikable-yet-totally-lovable characters, and this almost-too-ludicrous-to-be-believed plot that comes right out of a 19th century mining yarn. Post-divorce, motivated by a midlife crisis, Lee Garrison, a high school teacher, buys a mine off eBay near his hometown in Colorado. Locating …
Apr 06
Review of Spoonful by Indie Reader
Excerpt: “Chris Mendius has written an epic account of addictive behavior and what people do when there are simply no options left. Spoonful is a wonderful foray into Wicker Park’s gentrification and life below the radar.” Hyperlink: IndieReader.com