Praise for The Gulf; New Paris Review Essay

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"The Joys of Breaking and Entering," on Joy Williams's "strange waking dream of a novel," at the Paris Review.

Kristen Martin reviews The Gulf for BOMB:

Boggs nails the launching point for her satire of for-profit education and the unholy links between manipulation, money, and writing. But The Gulf is more than just a witty parody: Boggs uses the Ranch as a lens through which to examine our fractured country, where the inability to allow for ambivalence keeps us separated by a gulf. In Boggs’s ultimately redemptive novel, it is language—poetry—that bridges that gulf ...

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