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Christopher GuerinAbout Christopher Guerin Christopher Guerin was President of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic from 1985 to 2005 and is currently the Director of Program Development for Sweetwater Sound. He recently launched Zealotry (christopherguerin.blogspot.com/), a blog featuring his fiction and poetry, and is a writer and columnist for the group blog When Falls The Coliseum. His column there, “Now Read This!” (whenfallsthecoliseum.com/author/cguerin/ ), concentrates on great works of fiction or poetry. He is the author of two books each of fiction and poetry, a novel, and more than a dozen children’s books, all in search of a publisher. Features
Nothing is Real: The Beatles ‘Yellow Submarine’The Yellow Submarine exists. It’s not a mirage, or a mind game. Someone, inspired by the Beatles, built the Yellow Submarine, and it exits to this day. [12 November 2009] Nicholson Baker’s Enthusiasms and Passionate ObsessionsNicholson Baker writes from his enthusiasms, which are many and ever changing. Among other things, his books have focused on sex, John Updike, public libraries, and pacifism and World War II. His latest, The Anthologist, is his love letter to poetry. [4 November 2009] My Friend, George Harrison: Reflections on the Cool BeatleThe minute I saw George in those blue jeans, work shirt, and those sand-colored boots, I had to have them, and that was exactly what I wore for the months that followed. [21 September 2009] Honoré de Balzac: A Man of Enormous AppetitesOne has to wonder, having conquered two duchesses before reaching his 25th birthday, if Honoré de Balzac didn't believe he deserved the aristocratic title in his name more than some who'd come by it more honestly. [17 October 2008] Reviews
The Paris Review Interviews, Vols. 1-4, Edited by Philip GourevitchIf you love to read, love to write, or are simply curious about how great authors think and talk about their craft, you’ll find these interviews endlessly fascinating. [29 January 2010] 
The Best American Short Stories 2009 edited by Alice Sebold and Heidi PitlorI found at least five of the stories here to be competent, but far from satisfying as an artistic whole. [5 January 2010] 
The Humbling by Philip RothSimon Axler, a stage and screen actor of near legendary stature, has earned the “reputation as the last of the best of the classical American stage actors.” The novel begins: “He’d lost his magic.” [10 November 2009] 
Homer and Langley by E. L. DoctorowIn this book, E. L. Doctorow is like a great magician trying to make a monumental illusion out of a street corner shell game, just to prove that he can. [22 October 2009] 
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro’s first collection of short fiction, though more grounded in everyday experience than his recent novels, is tinged with his sense of the strange and sad, and, new for him, the humorous. [15 October 2009] 
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie MooreMoore’s reputation is for mastery of the short story. This book, almost 10 years in the making, should establish her as a master of the novel, as well. [4 September 2009] 
Inherent VicePynchon’s latest combines elements of The Big Lebowski, Dashiell Hammett, John Garfield’s movies, and the TV cop shows and Hollywood movie bikinis-and-surfboards grooviness of the early ‘70s. [7 August 2009] 
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff DyerTwo novellas about seeking: in the first, the seeking of pleasure, in the second, of being and nothing. [24 July 2009] 
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellNo matter how close we're brought to the pornography of war, Littell doesn't attempt to excuse anything, only to explain it. [17 July 2009] 
Nobody Move by Denis JohnsonAbout to get his knees broken, Jimmy grabs Gambol’s gun and shoots him in the leg when, of course, he should have shot him in the head. [29 May 2009] 
The English Major by Jim HarrisonThis book asserts that however ineluctable sex and death may be, the life of the mind, or lack thereof, is where we find or lose our true selves. [3 May 2009] 
Drood by Dan SimmonsCharles Dickens' last, unfinished novel is given new life in a story about the competitive friendship between Wilkie Collins and Dickens, both obsessed with a mysterious man named Drood. [27 March 2009] 
The Fire Gospel by Michel FaberWhat if someone discovered plausible, historical proof that Jesus Christ was simply a man who lived and died like any other man? [12 February 2009] 
A Lion Among Men by Gregory MaguireMaguire has taken the Oz template, twisted it toward the dark side of adulthood, and added a number of his own inventions. [18 December 2008] 
The Widows of Eastwick by John UpdikeThe novel has enormous vitality and the main characters are memorable, but the moral ambiguity, really moral obliviousness, is disappointing. [9 December 2008] BlogsRe:Print: The Oz Man’s Fine New Christmas Story [27 October 2009] |
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