Sideways Reviews: John Proctor’s Best American Essays Series
John Proctor is the Assistant Editor, Reviews Gone Sideways.
He’s reading one volume of The Best American Essays a month for the next two years. He also teaches at Manhattanville College and holds an MFA from VCFA. John lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.
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Out of Time
on “America, Look at Your Shame!” by James Agee
and “Amor Perdida” by Tennessee Williams
BAE 2004
A Charming Combination
on “The Habit” by Francis Spufford
and “The Love of My Life” by Cheryl Strayed
BAE 2003
Beads, Fabric, and Yarn
on selected essays
BAE 2004, 2005, & 2008
The Two Sides of Albert Goldbarth
on “Everybody’s Nickname”
by Albert Goldbarth
BAE 2008
I’ll Be the Moon
on “You Be the Moon”
by Amy Leach
BAE 2009
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The Dearth of the Eulogy
on selected essays
BAE 2010
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The Cycle of Cool
on “Against Cool”
by Rick Moody
BAE 2004
A Crush
on “Joyas Voladoras”
by Brian Doyle
BAE 2005
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I just read your comments on quilting. My mother, your grandmother and other women who quilt are not just “sewing”. The soul of the person making the quilt extends through her fingers and is pieced together uniquely to express her feelings for the person she is making it for or for herself a journal. I save all my mother’s quilts as I will always have a piece of her within them.
Well said, Mom.