My friend Katy Goodwin-Bates and I discuss a lot of things—books, music… well, okay, we mostly just discuss books and music. But in this retrospective conversation about… Read more “Katy and I Discuss Hole’s Live Through This Album”
Author: David Nilsen
A Review of We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. We Were Witches, underground literary goddess Ariel Gore’s newest novel, should be required reading, and I’m not even going… Read more “A Review of We Were Witches by Ariel Gore”
A Review of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A.C. Wise
The characters of A.C. Wise‘s stories in The Kissing Booth Girl (Lethe Press, 2016) are outsiders, every one of them. Some have secrets and hide in plain sight, others… Read more “A Review of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A.C. Wise”
Tuesday Weld
It’s fitting that Tuesday Weld is a patron saint of weirdos and obsessives, the cinephile’s Shirley Jackson, a star everyone knows about but no one really knows. She… Read more “Tuesday Weld”
Katy and I Discuss Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one Here is the U.S.,… Read more “Katy and I Discuss Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done”
A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Mohsin Hamid’s much-anticipated fourth novel Exit Westmakes deft use of a single fantastical element to create a magical realist novel… Read more “A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid”
The Weekly Recaps that Might’ve Been
I did weekly recaps on this site for a while. They were taking a silly amount of time each week, so I stopped. But… I didn’t replace… Read more “The Weekly Recaps that Might’ve Been”
Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook
Confession: I’ve never read any of Jeff Vandermeer’s fiction. Which makes it a little odd that I decided to read his book about writing, but in some… Read more “Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook”
Susan Kinsolving’s Dailies & Rushes: Poems
When I was a child, Moving scared me; every time I located my life, it wandered away once more. These words from Susan Kinsolving’s poem “In Preparation”… Read more “Susan Kinsolving’s Dailies & Rushes: Poems”
Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth
About a hundred years ago, the U.S. government very nearly gave the green light to a plan that would have brought hippopotamuses to the American South as… Read more “Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth”
