Neon – Reads A Lot

The Unadorned Grace of “Agatha of Little Neon” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 2, 2021 by D. W. White

[ad_1] A common refrain in the teaching of the craft of writing, to whatever extent that can in fact be done, is that one’s form and content, story and structure, should each be sculpted with the other in mind, a sort of mechanical drinking bird for the art of fiction, where the pressures of one … Read more

Gender Identity, Pop Culture Homage, & the Twenty-First-Century Western in “The Neon Hollywood Cowboy” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMay 13, 2021 by J.B. Stone

[ad_1] Matt Mitchell’s debut collection of poetry, The Neon Hollywood Cowboy, examines identity through the eyes of its eponymous archetype, depicting a nomadic traveler, saddled to his horseback, slipstreaming every passing moment into another literary confessional. The Neon Hollywood Cowboy represents an alter ego for Mitchell to funnel his own story through. An alter ego … Read more