PositiveThe Seattle TimesYou want to know what happens when you drink? Kristi Coulter can tell you, because she has had to deal with glugging, glassy-eyed folks at work parties and hotel pools, at holiday events and airport lounges, all while being stone-cold sober ... \'Once the third drink starts, people start repeating themselves,\' Coulter told me recently. \'They get louder. Their opinions get more emphatic. Whatever they think, they think more. They cling to that idea.\' ... These are some of the things she’s learned to do since quitting drinking five years ago, a decision she writes about in her new book of essays, Nothing Good Can Come From This ... The essays are wry and smart, honest and vulnerable. She writes about struggling to fill the time she had spent drinking, and almost having an affair with a co-worker...They are not so much revealing as freeing.
Eileen Myles
PositiveThe Seattle TimesAfterglow is subtitled '(a dog memoir),' but it is also a study in the best kind of anthropomorphism; it examines Myles’ relationship with Rosie, the dog’s dying, and the grief that followed ... It is poetry, it is fiction, it is monologue and screenplay with diagrams and drawings. A dizzying pastiche standing on four legs, next to two ... Myles did what she teaches her writing students, and followed prompts made from a 'catalog' of Rosie’s things.
