Articles by Anne K. Yoder

January 31, 2012

People Are Strange: Diane Williams’ Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty 1

We can’t escape eccentricity, but we can become habituated to it.

December 16, 2011

Alfred Kazin’s Brownsville 0

While reviewing  Alfred Kazin‘s Journals, Christopher Byrd pays a visit to Brownsville and Kazin’s boyhood home.

November 30, 2011

‘Tis the season 1

‘Tis the season for book gifting and sales! Danielle Dutton‘s Dorothy, a publishing project, is offering a special holiday deal on its two seasons of terrific books.

November 30, 2011

Recommended Reading 0

Elissa Schappell’s quick-witted book criticism now has an online presence with the debut of her Vanity Fair column, Just My Type. First up: a look at new fantasy fiction and a consideration of genre-bending novels, with a winning recommendation of Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon.

October 28, 2011

Appearing Elsewhere 0

Fence has a new web site. And a new fall issue! My story “The Art of Forgetting” appears online, alongside new work by Ariana Reines, Mary Jo Bang, and Thomas Israel Hopkins.

October 16, 2011

Green Girl and Zipper Mouth Release Party 0

If you like leading ladies so blazing they burn a hole in your head, make way to the East Village on Tuesday evening to hear Kate Zambreno and Laurie Weeks read at Dixon Place. Their latest novels, Green Girl and Zipper Mouth, depict  intense, edgy women with razor-sharp prose. And befitting both protagonists, there will [...]