Richard Broderick’s Jesus of Walmart,
Reviewed by George Wallace
Richard Broderick Jesus of Walmart New York Quarterly Books ISBN: 978-1-63045-019-9 Reviewer: George Wallace One might wonder, given a title like Jesus of Walmart, what kind of admixture of commentary poet Richard Broderick is going to offer concerning the presence of the sacred and the profane in contemporary American society. What immediately comes to […]
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Lynn Schmeidler – The Moment a Husband Stops Being a Husband and Starts Being a Black and White Photograph of a Husband
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