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Reviews

Castle & Pieces for the Left Hand

By Ryan Michael Williams

Neither book fully transcends the level of genre exercise, and both lose steam once the limits of Lennon’s formal concerns become apparent. [9 April 2009]

Mailman by J. Robert Lennon

By John Sears

Mailman's double life offers a penetrating critique of American social hypocrisy, embroiled in its own weird narrative, reluctant to respond to much outside of itself, and forced, eventually, to go on the run in search of escape from itself and the world it has made. [12 January 2004]