Sunday, June 23, 2013

The Believer...

...believes in B. J. Best. Stephen Burt's outstanding review of Best's But Our Princess Is in Another Castle appears in the June 2013 issue of the magazine, whose cover looks like this...

...and whose interior looks like this...

You can read part of the review online here, and in that review, Burt writes: "You might expect this collection of prose poems—whose puns, extended metaphors, and multiple-purpose generalizations string together the story of the author’s life, from childhood to fatherhood, by way of sixty-three video games—to be a sweet exercise in old-school nerd nostalgia. (“Frogger,” for example, concludes: “Some things are too dangerous to cross.”) And yet B. J. Best gathers his power not from nostalgia, not from the mere contrast between a kid’s joys and a grown-up’s cares, but from a deeper dichotomy." 

Thanks, Stephen! 

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