In the vein of Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, and Amelia Gray, Elizabeth Frankie Rollin’s debut collection The Sin Eater & Other Stories (Queen’s Ferry Press 2013) tight-ropes the line between domesticity and apocalypse. A wife allows the plague to infect her household, an adulterer hires a Sin Eater to absolve his guilt, a photographer captures… Read More
Category: Reviews
Review of In Praise of Nothing by Eric LeMay
The first choice to be made about Eric LeMay’s new book, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments (Emergency Press, 2014), is how to read it. This is perhaps a self-evident enough process but also something we could pay more attention to. LeMay knows this and calls attention to it; he trains his sense… Read More Review of In Praise of Nothing by Eric LeMay
Puerto Del Sol 48.1: A Display of “Lyric Muscle”
by Nina Boutsikaris I’m a fan of the tight, the gritty, the visceral. I fall to my knees for the kinds of juicy shocks to the heart that work quickly and quietly and leave me breathless. The winter issue of Puerto Del Sol had me on my knees. Jennifer Buxton, Myronn Hardy, Steven Ramirez (on… Read More Puerto Del Sol 48.1: A Display of “Lyric Muscle”
Book Review: Animal Collection by Colin Winnette
Animal Collection – I grasp for words to describe it. It is modern. It is postmodern. It is fables. It is magical realism. It is Saundersesque. It is Carveresque. It is flash fiction. It is short stories… Let’s just say that Colin Winnette’s second book of fiction, a collection of 25 [insert genre/mode here], defies… Read More Book Review: Animal Collection by Colin Winnette
Review: Beth Alvarado’s Anthropologies
The beginning of Anthropologies feels like something you’ve remembered before—a frail mother recounts stories for a middle-aged daughter. But then, the daughter is 18, and she wears bell bottoms and a black tee shirt and argues with the mother about a boyfriend. The argument ends and it is Colorado in 1968, and the windows fog… Read More Review: Beth Alvarado’s Anthropologies