Review: Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life by Paula Bomer (reviewed by Jen Grow)

July 17, 2017by jmwwblog Leave a comment

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.

Interview: The Negative Space of Jen Grow by Curtis Smith

August 14, 2015by jmwwblog 1 Comment

Jen Grow’s debut collection, My Life as a Mermaid, won the 2012 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition. She is the Fiction Editor of Little Patuxent Review. Her short fiction and nonfiction have […]

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Review: My Life as a Mermaid by Jen Grow (reviewed by Ashley Begley)

May 28, 2015by jmwwblog 2 Comments

My Life As a Mermaid, and Other Stores by Jen Grow 2015, Dzanc Books 216 Pages, $14.95 ISBN-13 978-1938103032 Heart beating in your ears, hidden away from the […]

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Review: Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life by Paula Bomer (reviewed by Jen Grow)

Interview: The Negative Space of Jen Grow by Curtis Smith

Review: My Life as a Mermaid by Jen Grow (reviewed by Ashley Begley)