James R. Petersen, Author, Jim Peterson, Author, Chronicle Books, Author ; text by Jim Peterson. Chronicle $50 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3978-5
You mean people don't read Playboy
for the Nabokov stories and hard-hitting reportage? Sturdily produced, this is a candy-colored, unpretentious gaze over a half-century of nudity, fun, sex and the most absurd fashions this side of Cukor's...
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Jim Peterson. Red Hen, $17.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-63628-009-7
Peterson (Paper Crown) suffuses this enchanting if opaque collection with references to television and literature. In “The Code,” John, a recently retired widower, takes a detective novel to a restaurant. After dinner, he can’t find his wallet and...
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Jim Peterson, Author Bench Press (OR) $0 (87p) ISBN 978-0-930769-08-6
This ordinary first collection articulates painful issues that hunger for resolution: the persona's absent father, unstable mother, the wounding isolation of his youth. Peterson aptly captures the premature wisdom of a child who understands the...
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