Review: Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003–2018 by Kathy Fish (reviewed by Kristen M. Ploetz)
Fish is skilled at using small twists to make every story its own micro-masterpiece.
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Category Archives: Reviews
Review: A Certain Loneliness by Sandra Gail Lambert (reviewed by Amanda Kelley Corbin)
Lambert is a skillful writer who wields her powers with wisdom and grace
Review: My Oceanography (Poems) by Harriet Levin (reviewed by L. Shapley Bassen)
My Oceanography By Harriet Levin 80 Pages CavanKerry, 2018 $16.00 ISBN-13: 978-1933880679 What do you know about Modernism? The Process Art Movement? How do you feel about Modern Art? You […]
Review: Silver Girl by Leslie Pietrzyk (reviewed by Shelley Harp)
Silver Girl is not escapism—it is the fictionalization of real-life.
Review: This Side of Sad by Karen Smythe (reviewed by Nisha Mody)
Smythe’s narrations about love, loss, loneliness, and time and are vivid.
Review: Saved by the Dead by Robert Cooperman (reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp)
Reviving the memory of the Grateful Dead, Robert Cooperman’s Saved by the Dead is a love song to more than the band, but to the fleeting nature of youth as well, his own.
Review: The Book of Sharks by Rob Carney (reviewed by Leonard Kress)
It is surely an act of chutzpah or orneriness to write an entire book of poems about sharks.
Review: The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist: A Novel by Michael Downs (reviewed by Michael Blackburn)
The novel is worth reading for its poetry, its structure that floats and fades and reforms and dissolves, and for its willingness to allow realism and ambiguity of character.
Review: This Darkness Got to Give by Dave Housley (reviewed by Joseph Crespo)
In a way that may be reminiscent of the loving spirit one would bring to a Dead show, Housley treats every character as an emotional being.
Review: The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg (reviewed by John Kazanjian)
The structure of the novel is a daring one. The narrative makes bold choices at the outset.
