Savannah Schroll Guz

About Savannah Schroll Guz

Savannah Schroll Guz is a monthly books columnist for PopMatters. She is also a ‘short takes’ columnist for Library Journal and co-edits the web version of the literary journal, Hobart). Find fiction, interviews, and impolite humor at MalaProductions.com.

Columns

Digesting The Raw Shark Texts

By Savannah Schroll Guz

Words, these fundaments of culture and personal expression, these phonic constructions, which are so closely linked to human emotion and identity, have a profound destructive capacity. [24 July 2007]

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Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

By Savannah Schroll Guz

Brad Listi's new novel realistically shows how Gen Xers perceive the world: it's full of random information that doesn't add up to an understanding of what life is all about. [26 June 2007]

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A Moral Pornographer?

By Savannah Schroll Guz

Can pornographic literature impart a lesson in morality? Author Tamara Faith Berger believes it can. [15 May 2007]

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Read Rage

By Savannah Schroll Guz

Moving others to constructive action, whether by persuasive or expository means, as Gutkind has done with Rage and Reconciliation, is the hallmark of socially-engaged literature. [17 April 2007]

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Palahniuk’s Fight Club Punch: We Never See It Coming

By Savannah Schroll Guz

With Fight Club, whether he intended to or not, Palahniuk has shown us that fascism can be created right before our eyes, almost invisibly, and we won’t even see it happening. [21 March 2007]

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