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'After Hours at the Almost Home' Captures Wait-staff Dynamicsnew

From the crisscrossing, interconnected perspectives of haggard wage slaves, After Hours at the Almost Home documents a single late shift at a fictitious Denver bar.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Raymond Cummings  |  07-08-2008  |  Fiction

Daniil Kharms: Aburdish and Brutenew

Today I Wrote Nothing is a generally knuckleheaded collection, so rife with undeveloped ideas and nonendings that you suspect that Kharms took great pleasure in tweaking his reader.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Raymond Cummings  |  01-29-2008  |  Fiction

Like 'The Devil Wears Prada' For Lawyersnew

Chambermaid delivers post-law school ennui without the frayed nerves and student-loan debts endured by lawyers. Better yet, it makes us root for them.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Raymond Cummings  |  10-23-2007  |  Fiction

Freebird!new

Mitch Myers might have done better to split The Boy Who Cried Freebird into two separate halves: one devoted to straightforward rock journalism and another for fiction-oriented CD reviews and tall tales best told over tallboys.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Raymond Cummings  |  09-11-2007  |  Fiction

A Fine Novelnew

Horses is ultimately a testament to just how easily mellows can be harshed -- to life's hidden tripwires, strung everywhere and capable of catapulting anyone back down the bittersweet rabbit hole of stinging memory.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Raymond Cummings  |  05-08-2007  |  Fiction

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