Laura Evers

Weddings, wolves, and “walla-walla” in “Best Men” – Chicago Review of Books

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Weddings, wolves, and “walla-walla” in “Best Men” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] David Schuman’s prose chapbook Best Men simmers with questions about why people act the way they do at weddings. Over the course of five stories, Schuman introduces a diverse cast of unconventional “best men” who find themselves swept up in events beyond their control. At once surprising and suspenseful, Best Men upends popular notions … Read more

Discovering Anti-Muses in Chet’la Sebree’s “Field Study” – Chicago Review of Books

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Discovering Anti-Muses in Chet’la Sebree’s “Field Study” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] If I could only have one book on my coffee table, it would be Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award. Field Study skillfully synthesizes writing genres and resists general categorization, upending the conventions of poetry, memoir, and autoethnography with the author admitting that “some of the characters here are … Read more