A review by jenna_birdy
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn

1.0

An exercise in mental masturbation. A stream of consciousness ramble full of opinion and wild conjecture masquerading as a biography. I’m sure the author thinks himself very clever, but his “literary” tricks with his prose quickly go from quirky to irritating to unbearable. I feel like this should have been a long article at best. Repetitive and full of long tangents barely related to Dickinson or her life. I knew little about her when I picked it up, and I think I know even less now. PASS.