All Posts by Justin Klugh

Welcome to minor league baseball, where men’s dreams are crushed yearly like bugs in the dust.  Pro catcher Chris Coste delivers the 13 year tale of his expedition through independent league ball to the majors, and every stop in between, all the while making you wonder:  was all of it really worth it just...
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Haunting, devastating, gut-wrenching story that runs at you with its arms outstretched and then viciously stabs you in the back with a corkscrew.  This book takes the genre of family drama character studies and turns a scenario you’ve only heard about on the news into a relate-able punch in the stomach that makes you think...
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What’s more unreadable than the cover of conservationist Mike Bingham’s story about saving the penguins of the Falkland Islands from commercial fishing industries, backed by the local corrupt government?  The descriptive, highly graphic sexual encounters he narrates throughout the first half, in which penguins are barely mentioned at all.
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Popping out for a cig for the fifth time while reassuring everyone you don’t smoke?  Cut. Look, smoke if you want, no one’s going to judge you for that.  Well, yeah, a lot of people actually will.  But at least go through with it.  Don’t tell us you’ve never paid for a pack and...
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I am sorry that I'm making it so hard to have sex with my corpse.
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Pancake syrup in the refrigerator?  Yeah.  Cut. Its syrup!  Why would want it cold?  Now its thicker, slower, and harder to distribute on breakfast.  It can’t go bad. Also, it’s morning–I’m lucky if I get out of the kitchen without setting my pants on fire.  I don’t have time to watch as the syrup...
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You don’t often see a book written in the second person outside of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series, which most people have outgrown by the time they’re 20 13, but this one flawlessly drops you into heroin-dealing hot spots that are going to feel a little prickly.  O’Connor grabs you by the back of...
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Slight issue with the delivery order, to the point where you’re quaking with tearful rage?  Cut. Easy, there.  I realize they forgot the hot sauce.  That doesn’t require you to break the arm rest off the couch.  Buy a stress ball… or a cat… but for god’s sake, leave the furniture alone.  It’s just...
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I wanted to ask that you add your own personal touch to this course, and show the hell up on time.
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Spaceman Blues by Brian Francis Slattery With an orgy of adjectives and one billion different characters, Slattery’s love/superhero/survivalist novel about a man searching for his lost lover in a colorfully futuristic New York will set your hair on fire with the sheer volume of verbiage.  Not often does an author fail to repeat themselves...
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