Fiction Reviews

A Review of Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

The review was first published on Fourth & Sycamore. Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mineis a critique of both consumer culture and our… Read more “A Review of Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine”

This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. JJ Amaworo Wilson’s Damnificados is based on real events, which seems almost incredible until you remember what a truly strange… Read more “A Review of Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson”

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”

This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Vaye Watkins, is a feverish parable about an American near-future without water. Not long from now the American West,… Read more “A Review of Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins”

This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. I am a sucker for improvised families in fiction. Vagrants who have each other’s backs, college kids who celebrate… Read more “A Review of Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn”

This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. There is a sickness at the heart of Ball, Tara Ison’s first short story collection, one she pokes at in… Read more “A Review of Ball: Stories by Tara Ison”

This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. I spent the first chapter of Rachel B. Glaser‘s new novel Paulina & Fran(Harper Perennial, 2015) laboring under the… Read more “A Review of Rachel B. Glaser’s Paulina & Fran”

This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. “When they barged into the bathroom and found us, the joke was on them. They were just men with… Read more “A Review of Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney”

This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Where do you go when you have no home? Wherever you are welcomed, naturally. Or supernaturally in the case… Read more “Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned”

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”