The Maxines: Drugstore EP
The Maxines Drugstore EP will remind you why baby-you had a crush on rock ‘n’ roll in the first place.
“Author Archive”
Rick Klaras is a crass and socially awkward fat kid from rural Arizona, except he is 31. He learned most of his better words from all (yes, all) of the Hardy Boys mystery novels at the public library, his verbose mother, the bums that he used to bribe to buy him booze, and the works of Aldous Huxley and (of course) Kurt Vonnegut. He is also a former high school teacher, pizza delivery boy, horse racing camera man and briefly, a micro-cosmic rock star. He is an abuser of hyphens and commas who will shamelessly scold others for misusing quotation marks and apostrophes. He lives, works, and makes pretentious music in Portland, OR.
Wish You Were Me
Boldness and a willingness to allow total strangers to gawk at her unadorned humanity makes Myriam Gurba’s Wish You Were Me shocking, engaging, and funny.
Person
A Review of Sam Pinks’s Person from Lazy Fascist Press, 2010, in which critic Rick Klaras discovers he shares much in common with the narrator.
Our Beloved 26th
A Review of Riley Michael Parker’s “Our Beloved 26th” from Future Tense Books, 2009. For Smalldoggies Book Reviews.
Richard Yates
A Review of Tao Lin’s novel Richard Yates in which Rick Klaras determines that Lin is perhaps not the be-all, end-all future of literature.
