Brief Book Reviews
The First Bad Man by Miranda July: This book is a delightfully weird experience. Full of cringe moments, bizarre fantasies, and the ugly magic of an un-extraordinary life. This book…
Fallen Fruit and the Portal to New Knowledge
Stoppard’s Arcadia considers the role of gender in the quest for knowledge and the ways human nature resists a fully deterministic model of the universe. The play uses the symbol…
Dissolution of True Knighthood: Queer Identity and Trauma in Calvino’s _The Nonexistent Knight_
The narration of Italo Calvino’s novel The Nonexistant Knight explores the aftermath of trauma in the queer body through the repeated use of mirrored images, contorted doubles, and illusion. In…
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi: Book Review
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi is a queer coming-of-age novel like no other, exploring trauma and its aftermath within an earthly body full of gods. The story centers on a young…
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I’m Sammy and I use they/them pronouns. I’m an avid reader, small-time gardener, and aspiring author. I live with my wife, our dogs and cats, and my hens in the hills of the Ozarks. I gravitate toward themes of liminal spaces, southern landscapes, generational traumas, and queer identity. This is where I dig in.
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