Review: Dead Girls and Other Stories by Emily Geminder (reviewed by Sean L. Corbin)
This is not a collection of stories overly dependent on plot; these are stories that attain their power through description, through syntax.
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Review: Joseph by Dena Rash Guzman (reviewed by Daniel Casey)
Joseph by Dena Rash Guzman Hologram Press (2017) 112 Pages ISBN: 9780998456713 It wouldn’t be contentious to say the political poem has changed dramatically this century. While there is still the […]
Review: Pax Americana by Kurt Baumeister (reviewed by Marnie Silverman)
Pax Americana takes place in the year 2034, a spy thriller featuring an alternate history America fresh off of years of Evangelical, right-wing rule.
Review: So Many True Believers by Tyrone Jaeger (reviewed by Jared Lemus)
The nine stories in So Many True Believers explore topics that are often left unexamined for fear of discovering what lies behind the thin, almost translucent, veil of the human psyche
Review: Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life by Paula Bomer (reviewed by Jen Grow)
At the heart of this collection is the search for the shared sense of humanity and compassion that fiction provides us. These essays remind us that stories give us a way to connect rather than to escape.
Review: Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland edited by Jane Sattefield and Laurie Kruk (reviewed by Katherine Cottle)
Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland Edited by Jane Satterfield and Laurie Kruk Demeter Press, 2016 282 pages, $34.95 978-1772580242 While there have been a variety of published and quality anthologies […]
Review: The Loss of All Lost Things by Amina Gautier (reviewed by Jeffrey Condran)
In this collection, the idea returned to most is our need to make loss feel significant and to keep it so.
Review: The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary by John Simpson (Reviewed by Blake Lubinski)
As anyone who reads Simpson’s memoir will discover, its pages aren’t filled with sharp-tongued lessons on using English words correctly. Instead, they’re printed with personal and engaging stories that not only entertain readers but cleverly inform them, as well.
Review: Blue Field by Elise Levine (reviewed by Marnie Silverman)
Blue Field by Elise Levine Biblioasis, 2016 200 Pages, $14.95 978-1771961516 Elise Levine’s Blue Field starts slow, setting up its characters and their relationships carefully, like dominoes to be […]
Review: I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell (Reviewed by Blake Lubinski)
I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell 164 pages Coffee House Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1566894531 When Chloe Caldwell was writing her third book, I’ll Tell You in Person, […]
