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Amphetamine Heart by Liz Worth
Reviewed by Gabino Iglesias There’s a very poetic moment to which many of us want to return as often as possible. You’re sitting at a bar, waxing poetically about the end of the world. Outside, the night is full of promise, so you order another
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Alyson Miers on the end of the world: Charlinder’s Walk blog tour
In 2012, the Plague ended the world as we know it. In 2130, Charlinder wants to know why. The origin of the disease remains a mystery. Ignorance of its provenance fuels a growing schism that threatens to destroy the peace that the survivors’
The Glorieta Pass by Chris O’Grady
Reviewed by Laura Roberts Chris O’Grady’s novel The Glorieta Pass follows a tough customer, Wilder, from being a day late and a dollar short to the town of Thomaston’s most wanted
one-bedroom solo by Sheila Maldonado
Reviewed by Amelia Cook As a bicultural, bilingual writer with immigrant roots, Sheila Maldonado is in the position to become a vibrant new voice in American poetry. Her first collection of poems, one-bedroom solo, intrigued
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
Reviewed by Joshua Willey Michael Ondaatje has by now proven himself to be a writer who is like Nabokov in at least one respect: he can write about anything and make it shimmer. Subject matter is rendered nearly irrelevant
The Wilding by Benjamin Percy
Reviewed by Joshua Willey When you begin reading Benjamin Percy’s debut novel, The Wilding, you might imagine you are in for a riff on the classic theme of nature
Between Parentheses by Roberto Bolaño, reviewed by Joshua Willey
The latest release in the saga of Roberto Bolaño translations from New Directions is an expansive, remarkable
The Voting Booth After Dark: Despicable, Embarrassing, Repulsive by Vanessa Libertad Garcia
Reviewed by Laura Roberts Indie publishing is a tricky thing. As an indie publisher myself, I feel a sense of camaraderie with those who self-publish and create their own platforms from which they can spring. Vanessa Libertad Garcia does this with her first book, The
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
One of the central theses of The Pale King—an unfinished novel whose author need not even be named, so great is the extent of his immortality in contemporary American letters—is that society is poisoned by an emphasis on quantity over quality. Of course this is an age-old criticism of advanced capitalism,
Coiled and Swallowed by Sara Crawford
I wish I had been able to read Sara Crawford’s Coiled and Swallowed ten years ago when I was still in college. The book navigates the challenges of growing up: the darkness of one-night stands, nights spent doing shots in seedy bars, the heartbreak and elation of first loves, and the general confusion
