They Say You Can Stop Yourself Breathing
Every Man Jack: On writing, politics, parenthood, being gay, grief management (Who said anything about great art?).
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- About Jack Andrew Urquhart
- Book Reviews
- Book Review: Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life” and “A God in Ruins”
- Book Review, George Saunders’ TENTH OF DECEMBER: In search of the deepest, dearest thing
- Book Review: Binocular Vision, by Edith Pearlman; “Cautious words make the story convincing”
- The Family Fang, by Kevin Wilson
- Book Review: Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson; A small American tragedy
- Book Review: Karen Russell’s “Swamplandia!”; A flavorful dish of gators and ghosts
- Book Review: Chantal Thomas’s “Farewell, My Queen”; Celebrity Worship Syndrome in the time of Marie Antoinette
- Jack A. Urquhart’s Quickie Book Review: Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed
- Jack Urquhart’s Quickie Book Review: Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel
- Jack Urquhart’s Quickie Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
- Kirkus Indie Review, So They Say, by Jack A. Urquhart
- Book Review: The Termite Queen: Volume One: The Speaking of the Dead
- Book Review: The Termite Queen: Volume Two, by Lorinda J. Taylor; Mostly Successful Conclusion to an Engrossing Saga
- Undrawn, by Conchie Fernandez
- Butterfly’s Child, by Alan H. Chin
- Song of the Orange Moons, by Lori Ann Stephens
- August Farewell, by David G. Hallman
- Proud Pants, by Gregory G. Allen
- Book Review: One Last Lie, by Rob Kaufman; Tense march toward tragedy and undefeated love
- They Say You Can Stop Yourself Breathing
- Poetry
- Coming to Grief
- Space (a prose poem)
- Hindsight, a prose poem
- Queer Science
- Shelter
- Sunday Morning Run (prose poem)
- Not on Your Life: a prose poem
- Surrendering to Cliché, free verse by @jackaurquhart
- For All I Care
- March
- Haiku for Dillon
- Haiku for My Son
- Recollections
- You Don’t Say
- Tinnitus (a prose poem)
- Three ‘Free Verses’ (as well they should be!) by @jackaurquhart
- Miscellanea
- Afterwords: Reflections on losing a child to mental illness and drugs
- Say ‘Cheese’! A Birthday Letter to my Son
- Train to Chartres
- Le Mont Saint-Michel: Juxtaposition of the Crass and the Sublime
- An Existential Exercise: Making sense out of getting lost
- When God Happens, by @jackaurquhart
- A Birthday Remembrance for my Son
- A Birthday Wish For Dillon, by @jackaurquhart
- A Few Words for Mom, by @jackaurquhart
- A Rocky Mountain Lullaby (For Dillon), by @jackaurquhart
- A Daddy’s Day Dispatch
- A Letter I Wrote Long Ago, by Jack Andrew Urquhart
- A Letter to 5 Cowardly U.S. Senators, by @JackAUrquhart
- A very strange man, by @jackaurquhart
- Anyone’s Opulence, the Silk Floss Tree, by @JackAUrquhart
- Does It Ever Get Any Easier?
- E-Store Customers Looking to Avoid Indie Authors?
- Exacerbating Malapropisms
- Fathers and Sons: Paternity from a Distance
- Getting It: A Reflection on ‘Coming Out’ in Middle Age
- GWM Seeks GM 4-Evermore
- Indie Authors: Yakkers, Tweeters, Braggers? Is that all there is to us? by @JackAUrquhart
- Karma, BJs, and Putting a Foot Wrong
- Indie Book Reviews: Objective Notice or Subjective Fanfare?
- Pop Quiz for a Religious Zealot?
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