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WISH FOR AMNESIA by Barbara Rosenthal: Review in Tinted Edges

“…A very clever, powerful and complex book that demands full attention and careful consideration. This is not a book about good and bad, but a book about the contest between priorities of the mind, priorities of the body and priorities of the soul."

—Angharad Lodwick, Tinted Edges 

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WISH FOR AMNESIA by Barbara Rosenthal: Review in We Love Quality Books

“The novel Wish for Amnesia is fast-paced, surprising, heart-wrenching and beautiful. It touches the very core of the reader’s soul, [and] will live up to its expectations of…unusual and amazing tidings…[that] weave intrigues for readers…. Barbara Rosenthal’s achievement as author…is exemplary. [She] elevates storytelling to a high note.…[in which] historical moments…beautifully intertwine in a [fictional] storyline [that] will haunt readers for a long time. The tale stands out in its imagery and its tight and gripping plot…. The incredible flow of the novel is not compromised even once! She builds an engrossing journey for each of the six characters and judiciously sees them through a befitting conclusion. Her photographs that accompany each chapter are a boost…. Wish for Amnesia…merits five stars and a read from every book lover around the world.”

—Kleio Bhagwati, Wicked Venom / We Love Quality Books.

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WISH FOR AMNESIA by Barbara Rosenthal: Review in Ragazine

“an adventure in language, as well as an entertaining “Siddhartha-type” read…[with] both pleasant and disturbing surprises…likely to touch a responsive chord…. The book is a kaleidoscope of  references to obscure and eclectic subjects…[that are] delightful to experience…. I, for one, thank Joseph Quintela for publishing “Wish For Amnesia,” and I believe many other readers will, too.”

—Mike Foldes, Ragazine

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WISH FOR AMNESIA by Barbara Rosenthal: Review in Jewish Voice

“Rosenthal enjoys toying with the narrative form. A welter of minute real-world detail confines characters and reader inside a moving prison of fate. [Her] characters come of age, start a family, harbor messianic visions, travel, [drive], attend a party, keep journals…[during] points of high physical drama…. The book is making an impact where it counts….”

—Lehman Weichselbaum, Jewish Voice.

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MY BEDSIDE RADIO by Anthony Cappo: Review in The The Poetry

"Anthony Cappo is just as skillful and considerate of sound in his poems as the singers that come through his radio."

 —Lauren Sartor, The The Poetry       

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MY BEDSIDE RADIO by Anthony Cappo: Podcast at Stitcher

The “coming of age narrative” will never lose its allure because we are constantly drawn back to the moments that shaped us into the adults we are today. Nostalgia, many argue, is the most powerful human emotion. It not only memorializes eras but intermingles fact with memory and emotion we even remember the feelings memory elicits and the realities we longed for. In My Bedside Radio (Deadly Chaps Press, 2016), coming of age is informed by music that in turn, informed an entire decade. The musicality of the lines mimics the musicality of a 1970s adolescence. The speaker learns about love, relationships, and our national culture by juxtaposing what was taking place in his home with how music was responding to current events. There was no internet and no way to broadcast knee-jerk responses. Musicians and other artists had to take time to process and understand. Their “art as response” actually depicted a thought out and measured response. Coming of age stories will continue to take on many forms– we can only hope for more “poetic forms” as these.

—Podcast, Stitcher

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