Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mineis a critique of both consumer culture and our society’s obsession with beauty. Set in an unspecified near future… Read more “A Review of Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine”
Category: Fiction Reviews
A Review of Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson
JJ Amaworo Wilson’s Damnificados is based on real events, which seems almost incredible until you remember what a truly strange world we live in. These are the facts… Read more “A Review of Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson”
A Review of Not Dark Yet by Berit Ellingsen
I love Two Dollar Radio, the indie press from my home state of Ohio that just released Berit Ellingsen’s Not Dark Yet. I really wish I loved Not Dark… Read more “A Review of Not Dark Yet by Berit Ellingsen”
A Review of Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Gold Fame Citrus by Vaye Watkins is a feverish parable about an American near-future without water. Not long from now the American West, a largely arid region… Read more “A Review of Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins”
A Review of Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn
I am a sucker for improvised families in fiction. Vagrants who have each other’s backs, college kids who celebrate the holidays together instead of going home even… Read more “A Review of Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn”
A Review of Ball: Stories by Tara Ison
There is a sickness at the heart of Ball, Tara Ison’s first short story collection, one she pokes at in each of the collection’s eleven tales until it… Read more “A Review of Ball: Stories by Tara Ison”
A Review of Rachel B. Glaser’s Paulina & Fran
I spent the first chapter of Rachel B. Glaser‘s new novel Paulina & Fran(Harper Perennial, 2015) laboring under the misguided belief I needed to like its characters.… Read more “A Review of Rachel B. Glaser’s Paulina & Fran”
A Review of Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney
“When they barged into the bathroom and found us, the joke was on them. They were just men with radios calling for backup. We were simian angels… Read more “A Review of Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney”
Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned
Where do you go when you have no home? Wherever you are welcomed, naturally. Or supernaturally in the case of Ray Bradbury’s classic (redundant, I know) From the… Read more “Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned”
A Review of Chelsea Martin’s Even Though I Don’t Miss You
Chelsea Martin’s Even Though I Don’t Miss You (Short Flight / Long Drive, 2013) is about the end of a relationship that has only lasted as long… Read more “A Review of Chelsea Martin’s Even Though I Don’t Miss You”
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