To purchase issue #81 using Paypal, click here. INTERVIEWS Paul Lisicky: Lessons in Survival | by Dylan Hicks Casey Gray: The Big-Box Novel | by Evan Lavender-Smith Valery Oisteanu: Anarchy for a Rainy Day | by Paul McRandle FEATURES MnA presents: In Practice: Sun Yung Shin | by Lightsey Darst Books Remembered | Richard Kostelanetz […]
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ABOUT RAIN TAXI'S EVENTS In keeping with its drive to celebrate and support literature, Rain Taxi sponsors (and co-sponsors)live events in the Twin Cities. Rain Taxi's live events focus on presenting innovative authors in a variety of literary genres, from poetry and fiction writers to memoirists and cartoonists. We have two main programs that demonstrate […]
Jon Resh Viper Press ($4.50) by Kevin Carollo With extended similes to rival Raymond Chandler—for example, "slobber over 'good' amps like a cheap salesman ogles middle-aged lap dancers after a few stiff drinks" and self-deprecating refrains along the lines of "in those first few weeks, we had zero chemistry . . . lacking any sense […]
Paco Ignacio Taibo II Translated by Bill Verner Cinco Puntos Press ($13.95) by Kevin Carollo Detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is not all there: in Frontera Dreams, he often looks in the "mirror without recognizing himself". By the time we reach this novel, the seventh featuring Taibo's beleaguered sleuth, he has endured myriad wounds, slashes, and […]
Koigi wa Wamwere Seven Stories Press ($15.95) by Kevin Carollo I suffered a prison and detention term, but that is out of the past and I am not going to remember it . . . If I wronged you forgive me, if you wronged me, I forgive you . . . Let us forgive and […]
Yasmina Khadra Translated by Linda Black The Toby Press ($19.95) by Kevin Carollo How can you forget when you spend your time betraying your memory, and your nights trying to piece it together again like a cursed jigsaw, only for it to go hazy again when dawn comes, over and over again. Every day. Every […]
Walter Mosley Little, Brown & Company ($19.99) by Kevin Carollo Coming in at around half the length of Chris Baty’s novel-in-a-month plan No Plot? No Problem!, Walter Mosley’s deliberately slim tome on writing a novel over the course of a year is an odd bird. The difference in approach between the two can be glimpsed in […]
COMPLICATIONS Garrett Caples Meritage Press ($16) NO REAL LIGHT Joe Wenderoth Wave Books ($14) by Kevin Carollo Both Garrett Caples and Joe Wenderoth have been busy this century, and 2008 finds them on top of their game. It’s been eight years since Caples’s groundbreaking first collection, the archly titled Garrett Caples Reader (1999), and almost as many […]
Alexandra Fuller Penguin ($23.95) by Kevin Carollo “There is a magic place . . . ” —TV ad for Wyoming tourism Alexandra Fuller’s third nonfiction work tells the story of a young man who grew up, lived, and suddenly died on the oil patch in western Wyoming. The British-born, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean-raised author of the fine memoirs Don’t […]