Self-Portrait with Ghosts and Trains, Jessie Lynn McMains

Self-Portrait with Ghosts and Trains, Jessie Lynn McMains

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"Jessie Lynn McMains is an American writer. I mean that in the sense that their writing shows the sum of America as they know it--a wild, panoramic, documentary view. The rundown Midwest towns, the coal trains, haunted lakeshores, factories closing, heroin habits, old men fishing for trout, summer lovers, unholy motel rooms, dust motes blazing, cornfields, head-on collisions, fried potatoes, queer love, endless arguments and endless cigarettes, dim-lit bars, and the quiet, sunny, overgrown railyards of every town everywhere. Their writing feels like a Middlewestern Whitman for 2021, as they deliver visual, thoughtful, dark, well-crafted depictions of life in this failing empire.Self-Portrait with Ghosts and Trains makes me want to drive around and look at things, listen in on things, stare at my problems then smash them with a strongman's hammer from a county fair. Some books, some stories, poems, songs push you to toss yourself into the thick of life, to dive into the dense, crowded

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