Motherfucking Sharks by Brian Allen Carr (A Review)
By Ryan Craig Bradford 116 pgs. | $9.95 Lazy Fascist Press It was late in the August of 2013 when weather-borne sharks descended upon us. It was a hot summer (but aren’t they all, these days?), and by...
View ArticleAn Untamed State by Roxane Gay (A Review)
By David S. Atkinson Grove Atlantic Press 368 pgs | $16.00 Mireille Duval Jameson has lived a life of privilege. The daughter of Haitian immigrants who endlessly struggled in the United...
View ArticleThe Following Sea by Marcel Jolley (A Review)
By C.A. LaRue Black Lawrence Press 150 pgs. | $16.00 The dreary off-season in a sleepy Alaskan borough just got ten times more interesting as its Native American chief of police Joseph Merickel is...
View ArticleQuarry Light by Claudia Smith (A Review)
By Justin Brouckaert Magic Helicopter Press 120 pages | $14 I first encountered Claudia Smith nearly two years ago when I read her excellent flash fiction collection The Sky is a Well (Rose...
View ArticleAbove All Men by Eric Shonkwiler (A Review)
By David S. Atkinson MG Press 266 Pages | $15 Read an excerpt here Whenever I review a book, I try to look for a handle…a way in to talking about it. Some books are easier than others to...
View ArticleDoll Palace by Sara Lippmann (A Review)
By Leesa Cross-Smith Dock Street Press 198 pgs. | $16.00 Doll Palace (Dock Street Press, September 2014) by Sara Lippmann is a simple book, a simple collection of stories. There are no quotation...
View ArticleAddicts and Basements (A Review)
By Gabino Iglesias Civil Coping Mechanisms 142 pages | $13.95 Robert Vaughan’s Addicts & Basements places the reader on shaky ground from the first page and relentlessly delivers short blasts of...
View ArticleThis Boring Apocalypse by Brandi Wells (A Review)
By Derrick Martin-Campbell Civil Coping Mechanisms 124 pages | $13.95 Love, the great destroyer, the apart-tearer — woe unto those caught in the crosshairs of the love of Brandi Wells’ unnamed narrator...
View ArticlePelican by Emily O’Neill (A Review)
By AK Afferez YesYes Books 112 pages | $16 O’Neill knows how to listen to language, to tease out all the possibilities it has to offer (after all, she claims to owe her poetic education to the Cantab...
View ArticleNorth of Order by Nicholas Gulig (A Review)
By AK Afferez YesYes Books 123 pages | $16 North of Order lets loose an overarching imagination, one that is freed of borders and delimitations, and one to which Nicholas Gulig’s own geographical...
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