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Cowboy Books
5 days ago2 min read
Party Till It Hurts
Simon Hanselmann’s ‘One More Year’ from Fantagraphics is one rough party.
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Cowboy Books
Dec 183 min read
Sparkle Trash
The reissue of Robert Plunket’s ‘Love Junkie’ is a sleazy, breezy hoot!
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Cowboy Books
Aug 13 min read
What the Magpie Knows: ‘The Axeman’s Carnival’ by Catherine Chidgey
A talking bird & domestic unrest in New Zealand: Cowboy reports!
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Carson Milstead
Jun 163 min read
Who is G? The One & The Many: 'Parade' by Rachel Cusk
Carson Milstead reviews Rachel Cusk’s latest literary experiment.
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Cowboy Books
May 202 min read
'Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage'
Cowboy reads Pierre La Police's wacky graphic masterpiece.
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Carson Milstead
May 138 min read
Sapphic Digest: A Reading List of Romance & Exploration
Carson Milstead has been reading a lot of queer lit, y'all.
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Cowboy Books
Apr 164 min read
Poetry as Alien Contact: 'The Lights' by Ben Lerner
The truth is out there, y'all, & it might just be a poem.
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Cowboy Books
Jan 165 min read
What I'm Readin'
Okay, I’ll be perfectly honest, y’all, I’ve been slackin’ on these here book reviews, and I ran it by Humphrey and he said I could just...
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Cowboy Books
Mar 27, 20233 min read
HOT ANCIENT NEWS: Uncracked codes of the distant past, Cowboy Books reports!
You can really find whimsy in the most unexpected places, y’all — when I cracked open Silvia Ferrera’s The Greatest Invention: The...
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