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CUYAHOGA by Pete Beatty Read by Feodor Chin
Narrator Feodor Chin embraces the satirical world of this debut novel with a whimsical tone, an engaged style, and a quick cadence that suits the nineteenth-century fable. He does a fine performance of the sounds in this audiobook--from the thwack of an axe to the sharp sound of gunshots and the splashes of swimming in Lake Erie. Befitting this satire of the tall tale, everything in this audiobook is outsized.
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Angela Bauer, abauer@myjournalcourier.com Published 4:06 am CST, Saturday, November 21, 2020 Image 1 of / 7 Caption Close Image 1 of 7 What’s new at Jacksonville Public Library: ADULT FICTION “Cuyahoga” by Pete Beatty: Big Son is a spirit of the times — the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself.
"Cuyahoga" - An Old-Fashioned Medicine Show of a Read - The Arts Fuse
You are here: Home / Books / Book Review: “Cuyahoga” — An Old-Fashioned Medicine Show of a Read By Drew Hart Filled with galoots of all kinds, the novel might not have any true reason for existing, nor may it have any reason to end. But heck, it’s a good, old-fashioned medicine show of a read. Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty. Scribner, 266 pp., $27.
Pete Beatty’s ‘Cuyahoga’ Images an Ohio, and a Country, Divided
Fiction Pete Beatty’s “Cuyahoga” is a breezy fable of empire, class, conquest and ecocide. Oct. 6, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET CUYAHOGA By Pete Beatty “Let us have tenderness but also a dash of cussedness and tragedy,” writes Medium Son, the narrator of “Cuyahoga,” Pete Beatty’s debut novel. “All in the manner native to Ohio.” The year is 1837, and the Cuyahoga is the sidewinding river separating the empire of Cleveland from the more rough-hewn frontier town of Ohio City.
CUYAHOGA | Kirkus Reviews
A rambling shaggy dog tale of the frontier that, 200-odd years ago, lay just across the Appalachians. In the winter of 1828, chronicles native son Beatty, Cleveland lay on the eastern shore of the Cuyahoga River while on the bluff opposite lay the wild territory called Ohio City. Its champion is a Paul Bunyan–esque character called Big Son, “his shoulders wide as ox yokes,” who “drank a barrel of whiskey and belched fire….Ate a thousand pan cakes and asked for seconds.
Cuyahoga
"Cuyahoga defies all modest description: It's deliriously fun to read: nonstop laughs, pages that whiz by, and a style that seems to gather up and beautify an entire history of American bullshit artistry...
Cuyahoga
One of The Millions and BuzzFeed’s Most Anticipated Books A spectacularly inventive debut novel that reinvents the tall tale for our times—“Cuyahoga defies all modest description…[it] is ten feet tall if it’s an inch, and it’s a ramshackle joy from start to finish” (Brian Phillips, author of Impossible Owls). Big Son is a spirit of the times—the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself.
Shelf Awareness for Monday, March 30, 2020
Quotation of the Day 'Bookstores Can Be Saved' "We will lose a lot in these next months. We've already lost too much. One thing we don't need to lose is our independent bookstores. You have watched all the episodes of Norsemen. I've watched them twice. Now we need books.... If there were ever a time to take a few extra moments to order through your local bookstore, it's now.
5K | The Fiction Issue | Cleveland Scene
Even at rush hour on a weekday, downtown didn't have too many pedestrians. Before noon on a Saturday, it didn't have enough. I walked for miles across the city's central district and saw zero humans outside of a motor vehicle. Only in the four-lobed square at the heart of the heart of town did I encounter fellow loose souls. I joined these loiterers. Some of us looked forward to becoming bus passengers; others had less to anticipate. A lake breeze moved past, as indifferent as the passing cars.
Clickbait Jesus: How Johnny Manziel Became JFF and OMG ESPN BFD ASAP and We'll Stop There Because You've Already Decided to Read this Story
Like all good Johnny Manziel stories, this one starts in Texas. But unlike all the rest, this one starts in a Texas Walmart. Four Sundays ago, I was in the Walmart Supercenter in Lufkin, Texas. I was in the middle of a road trip, and a diet of rest-stop fast food had my stomach sounding like Mike Trivisonno. I was hoping the Walmart sold fruit, because I wasn't sure where else to find anything that wasn't industrially distributed meat.
Train Dreams, Part 3
For a refresher on where we left O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen, see Part 1 and Part 2 of “Train Dreams” By Pete Beatty “I feel that I am one of those who are not influenced by dollars. There is a profit beyond a certain point that is no inducement to me.
Every ESPN ‘30 for 30’ Film, Ranked -- Vulture
ESPN’s acclaimed “30 for 30” series returns tonight with its 52nd entry, Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau, an examination of the life of a pioneering big-wave surfer. Even though its name is essentially gibberish now (“30 for 30” refers to the batch of films rolled out to celebrate the network’s 30-year anniversary in 2009), the sports-documentary project retains its critical and ratings impact.
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