Dead Aquarium (Dec ’23)
Dead Aquarium by Caleb Sarvis is a postmodern Saunders-esque journey into the minds and souls of wounded, resilient characters I won’t soon forget. Savannah sleeps on the roof of her…
REVIEW: The Brittanys by Brittany Ackerman
Fiction. 272 pgs. Vintage June 2021. 9780593311738. Oh, to be fourteen again. To experiment with webcams, go out on first dates, and waste time at the mall. To make best…
REVIEW: The Martyrs, The Lovers by Catherine Gammon
Disclaimer: Bridge Eight published Catherine Gammon’s previous novel China Blue, winner of the Bridge Eight Fiction Prize in 2021. Fiction. 316 pgs. 55 Fathoms. March 2023. 9781942797333. When you read a…
REVIEW: Begat Who Begat Who Begat by Marcus Pactor
Short Fiction. 116 pgs. Astrophil Press. November 2021. 9780998019963. A text is a text and we’d be best to remember that. Words mean something. They are weapons. It’s our responsibility…
REVIEW: Teenager by Bud Smith
Fiction. 400 pgs. Vintage. May 2022. 9780593315224. What if Albert Camus wrote The Stranger in the mid-2000s but wanted the humming engine of it all to be the absurdity of…
REVIEW: True Fiction by Sohrab Homi Fracis
Short Fiction. 96 pgs. Texas A&M University Press. October 2022. 978-1-62288-932-7. Disclaimer: The opening story of True Fiction appears in our book 15 Views of Jacksonville and the manuscript was…
REVIEW: Year of the Buffalo by Aaron Burch
Novel. 190 pgs. American Buffalo Books. November 2022. 9780578394015. We’re wrestling. We’re listing to CDs. We’re building a fence. Sorry, Fence. We’re raising Billy. Year of the Buffalo is a…
REVIEW: Shadowselves by Jason Ockert
Fiction. 192 pgs. Dzanc Books. February 2022. 9781950539390. Disclaimer: Bridge Eight published “Y’Idiot” – featured in Shadowselves – you can read it here. My daughter started walking this week. At…
REVIEW: The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
Fiction. 400 pgs. Other Press. November 2021. 9781635421699. One storm. Two planes. Two captains. Two sets of passengers. You see where I’m going with this. Or maybe you don’t. The Anomaly is…
Eric Boyd
Words with Pittsburgh-based fiction writer. Eric Boyd is a fiction writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He won the 2012 PEN Prison Writing award and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His…