Parrots

Reasons to read Gary Barwin’s Yiddish for Pirates (2016)

Buried In Print2017-07-20T17:43:35-04:00

For a love of birds with wings, especially parrots. "But what did happen to Adam and Eve? Did they hollow out the Tree of Knowledge, make a canoe and then paddle east to Europe? Fnyeh. Not these Heyerdahls. But, if there ever were an Adam and Eve, who knows where they

Reasons to read Gary Barwin’s Yiddish for Pirates (2016)Buried In Print2017-07-20T17:43:35-04:00

An Act of Preservation: Telling Stories

Buried In Print2014-03-17T13:52:40-04:00

The stories in Birds of a Lesser Paradise are so consistently good that I almost didn't want to read them. Beginning Megan Mayhew Bergman's collection, I had no expectations. She's been much-anthologized, and has a nice list of publishing credits, but that doesn't guarantee a good match between

An Act of Preservation: Telling StoriesBuried In Print2014-03-17T13:52:40-04:00