Billy Collins’ “Boy Shooting at Statue”
Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, his 2021 follow-up to his 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See, is a spectacularly wide-ranging novel that alternates between contemporary thriller, historical novel, and speculative science fiction, that takes readers from fifteenth-century Constantinople to twentieth- and then twenty-first century America and then to a twenty-second century generational… Continue reading Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
Rogue Roundabout
Review No. 197: The Rogue Roundabout 804 Chestnut Street (No phone number listed) The SituationHe Said: So, 20 years ago who would have predicted that bone-dry Faulkner County would have a microbrewery-restaurant in Downtown Conway? Yet, here it is. In a 5,500 square-foot building that, if memory serves, used to be a payday check-cashing place on… Continue reading Rogue Roundabout
Sharon Olds’ “The Preparing”
Henry Vaughan’s “And Do They So? Have They a Sense?”
Stephen Dunn’s “Ars Poetica”
Elizabeth Spires’ “Easter 1955”
Carol Ann Duffy’s “Medusa”
Osaka Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse
Review No. 196: Osaka Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse 1700 Altus St., Suite 105 (501) 358-6023 The SituationHe Said: She Said was in the middle of a huge work project and had no time to think about eating at home, so we figured we might as well do a review as long as we were forced to eat… Continue reading Osaka Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse