Author: Matt Marshall
Matt Marshall is a freelance writer/ critic in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a regular contributor to Jazz Improv Magazine and AllAboutJazz.com, and he maintains the Cleveland Humanist blog. His fiction has been published in
Positivity Ain’t All It’s Pumped Up to Be
Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, by Barbara Ehrenreich (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8050-8749-9) 256 pp. Cloth $23.00. Barbara Ehrenreich dedicates her latest book, Bright-sided, “To complainers everywhere,” entreating them to “Turn up the volume!” But the book that follows this emphatic call to arms is far from …
Organic Poetics
Darwin: A Life in Poems, by Ruth Padel (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-27239-3) 160 pp. Cloth $26.00. Not only does Ruth Padel’s Darwin: A Life in Poems hitch its wagon to the star of the 2009 Darwin bicentennial, but its poetry sprouts within the burgeoning field of organics as well. In shaping …
This Is News?
God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (New York: The Penguin Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59420-213-1) 416 pp. Cloth $27.95 It’s a bit strange—if not audacious—that The Economist’s editor in chief, John Micklethwait, and its Washington bureau chief, Adrian Wooldridge, would choose to coauthor …