AltWeeklies Wire
'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
Tags: Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson