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… Lisa Russ Spaar on Wuthering Heights, Ron Slate, and Canine Literary Critics | Book Marks. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

My hands-down favorite living critic is the poet and essayist Ron Slate, who for years has maintained an exciting on-line forum On the Seawall, a website which has not only featured reviews by a great many other reviewers, but which has allowed Ron himself to bring to light—through his own perspicacious, eloquent examinations of all manner of books (novels, poetry, hybrid texts, art books, cultural studies, history texts)—an aesthetically and demographically diverse array of writers, every one of them lucky to have been considered by this inimitable reviewer. Each of Ron’s essays is a treasure trove of information and illumination.

Luckily for readers, On the Seawall is about to evolve into a full-fledged on-line magazine, what Ron himself has called “a community gallery for new writing, commentary and art during a time of emergency. (It is always a time of emergency.)” I try to read everything that Ron writes, and I encourage others to seek out On the Seawall in its new iteration (the launch is in October) and do the same.