“There Are Still Empty Places in California” and Red Savina Review Reviewed in The Review Review
December 3, 2013
Okay, this sentence gets complicated: a well-known online journal called The
Review Review, which publishes reviews of literary journals, today published a review of the journal Red Savina Review, whose most recent issue (September 8) included my essay, “There Are Still Empty Places in California.” I almost blush (almost) to quote the review, but here’s a piece of it: “Jim Brega’s opener falls into the ‘second person,’ how-to genre. You do this. You do that. It anchors the issue in the Southwest, but the writing itself is over-the-top fabulous.”
I think I know what I want on my headstone…
James Brega: What I Write Instead of Nothing 