Hal Duncan’s Scruffians: Stories of Better Sodomites is a collection of fantastical stories that are at points silly, grotesque, absurd, transgressive, poignant, and usually more than one of those things… Read more “A Review of Scruffians: Stories of Better Sodomites by Hal Duncan”
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A Review of The Crimes of Clara Turlington by Meg Johnson
The Crimes of Clara Turlington by Meg Johnson (Vine Leave Press, 2015) is a thin collection full of sex and fire. These pieces are mostly poems, but… Read more “A Review of The Crimes of Clara Turlington by Meg Johnson”
A Review of Matthew Griffin’s Hide
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Matthew Griffin’s debut novel Hide (Bloomsbury, 2016) is the story of a lifelong love that has carved out a shelter… Read more “A Review of Matthew Griffin’s Hide”
A Review of Constellarium by Jordan Rice
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. “Everyone longs for bad reasons most of their lives, and those of us who know it lie or… Read more “A Review of Constellarium by Jordan Rice”
A Review of Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Laura Horak’s new book Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2016) is an exhaustively… Read more “A Review of Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys”
Dubliners by James Joyce
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore Until this month, I had never read anything by James Joyce. No Finnegan’s Wake, no Ulysses, no A Portrait of the Artist… Read more “Dubliners by James Joyce”
A Review of The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy About Love (and Hate) by Chris Matheson
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. To say Chris Matheson’s The Story of God is irreverent would be misleading: irreverent does not begin to cover it. Matheson… Read more “A Review of The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy About Love (and Hate) by Chris Matheson”
A Review of Jennifer Grotz’s Window Left Open
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. oh Lord I’ll make a broken music or I’ll die… – from “The Snow Apples” In her new collection Window… Read more “A Review of Jennifer Grotz’s Window Left Open”
A Review of Abandoned Homeland by Jeff Gundy
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Ohio poet Jeff Gundy’s Abandoned Homeland is a collection of simple poems that feel rooted in their midwestern state of origin.… Read more “A Review of Abandoned Homeland by Jeff Gundy”
A Review of Melinda Palacio’s How Fire Is a Story, Waiting
An earthy elementalism provides the texture and grit of Melinda Palacio’s How Fire Is a Story, Waiting (Tía Chucha Press, 2012). I recently reviewed Lo Kwa Mei-en’s debut collection Yearling… Read more “A Review of Melinda Palacio’s How Fire Is a Story, Waiting”
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