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Oct 3, 20144 min read
Chain Link Fence / Patti White
Chain Link Fence, poems by Patti White. As a child growing up in South Mississippi, I was given the chore of plucking the fascicles of...
Aug 30, 20144 min read
Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours / Luke B. Goebel
Fourteen Stories, None Of Them Are Yours, a novel by Luke B. Goebel, Fiction Collective 2. In this too-brief debut novel-in-stories,...
Aug 18, 20143 min read
WHELM / dawn lonsinger
Whelm, a poetry collection by dawn lonsinger, Lost Horse Press Whelm by dawn lonsinger is a book of poems dominated by the forces of...
Jul 11, 20145 min read
Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years / Eds. Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns
Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, an anthology edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns, W.W. Norton & Company In...
Jul 5, 20144 min read
On the Street of Divine Love / Barbara Hamby
On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems, a poetry collection by Barbara Hamby, University of Pittsburgh Press. Barbara...
Jun 5, 20144 min read
Claire of the Sea Light / Edwidge Danticat
Claire of the Sea Light, a novel by Edwidge Danticat, Random House. Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat’s fifth novel, takes...
Nov 23, 20133 min read
Once Upon A River / Bonnie Jo Campbell
A novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon A River, W.W. Norton & Company. Toward the end of Once Upon a River, a farmer negotiating a...
Nov 23, 20135 min read
Rise / L. Annette Binder
Rise. Stories by L. Annette Binder. Sarabande Books. Obsession, pain, and longing. These are the elements that indelibly mark L. Annette...
Oct 8, 20133 min read
A River So Long / Vallie Lynn Watson
A River So Long by Vallie Lynn Watson Veronica, the protagonist of Watson’s A River So Long, lives in a world of hotels. Her job takes...
Oct 8, 20133 min read
The World Without You / Josh Henkin
A novel by Josh Henkin, The World Without You, Vintage The World Without You by Josh Henkin, newly released in paperback, tells the story...
Oct 8, 20133 min read
A Dying Fall / Elly Griffiths
A Dying Fall, A novel by Elly Griffiths, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Murder with its usual dash of mayhem, bleak British landscape,...
Oct 8, 20136 min read
Vulgar Remedies / Anna Journey
Poetry by Anna Journey, Vulgar Remedies. Louisiana State University Press. In “Eden and My Generation,” Larry Levis claims that the poet...
Oct 8, 20137 min read
Stealing History / Gerald Stern
Stealing History: Essays by Gerald Stern W. M. Lobko Gerald Stern on the former U.S. general Stanley McChrystal: “…he was and is...
Oct 8, 20137 min read
Animal Eye / Paisley Rekdal
Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal W. M. Lobko Paisley Rekdal opens her fourth book of poetry with the following salvo: “And then I thought,...
Oct 4, 20134 min read
Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race / Ed. Harriet Pollack
Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race by Harriet Pollack Patrick Osborne Over the last few decades, literary critics have struggled to...
Mar 19, 20135 min read
Book Review by Jeffrey Allen
The Youngest Butcher in Illinois by Robert Ostrom Jeffrey Allen There is much out there that implies an expansive existence, a belief...
Mar 19, 20134 min read
Book Review by Keith McCleary
The Man Who Noticed Everything by Adrian Van Young Keith McCleary “Hard Water,” the opening story in Adrian Van Young’s debut collection,...
Oct 15, 20124 min read
Book Review by David Moody
Kings of the F**king Sea, Poetry by Dan Boehl, Art by Jonathan Marshall David Moody On a shelf, Kings of the F**king Sea by Dan Boehl...
Oct 14, 20123 min read
Book Review by April Manteris
Nostalgia for the Criminal Past by Kathleen Winter April Manteris From the opening, title poem in her debut collection, Nostalgia for the...
Oct 13, 20123 min read
Book Review by Micah Dean Hicks
Windeye by Brian Evenson Micah Dean Hicks Brian Evenson’s latest collection, Windeye, is a book that will ruin you. Between stories,...
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