REVIEW: The Brittanys by Brittany Ackerman
byFiction. 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…
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Interview With FREEDOM HOUSE Author KB Brookins
byLO: I’m excited to chat about your new book that’s coming out, the full poetry collection, Freedom House. I just finished reading my copy of the manuscript and absolutely loved…
REVIEW: The Martyrs, The Lovers by Catherine Gammon
byDisclaimer: 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: The Status Revolution by Chuck Thompson
byNonfiction. 288 pgs. Simon & Shuster. January 2023. 9781476764948. “When a sitting U.S. president can defend the virtue of Nazis and Arbeit macht frei becomes a rallying cry in the…
REVIEW: Almanac of Useless Talents by Michael Chang
byPoetry. 120 pgs. Clash Books. September 2022. 9781955904216. Text-speak closer to truth, sex so sexy it’s sexless, a lexicon collaged from the remnants of y2k paranoia and its subsequent cultural…
REVIEW: A Book About Myself Called Hell by Jared Joseph
byHybrid. 141 pgs. Kerpunkt Press. February 2022. 9781734306545. Jared Joseph’s A Book About Myself Called Hell is a book about Dante’s Inferno, the first cantica of the 14th-century epic poem…
REVIEW: Bark On by Mason Boyles
byNovel. 363 pgs. Driftwood Press. February 2023. 978-1-949065-18-3. Submit, submit, submit to the cadences, the novel told me, to the neologisms that open up new perspectives on character and action,…
REVIEW: Kneel Said the Night by Margo Berdeshevsky
byHybrid. 130 pgs. Sundress Publications. November 2022. 9781951979423. From its gorgeous cover to its final author’s note (fittingly circling back to the epigraph from Zora Neale Hurston, “No hour is…
REVIEW: The Anchored World by Jasmine Sawers
byFlash Fiction. 78 pgs. Rose Metal Press. October 2022. 978-1-941628-27-0. In an author’s note at the end of The Anchored World, Jasmine Sawers explains her love of fairy tales—both Western…
REVIEW: Begat Who Begat Who Begat by Marcus Pactor
byShort 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…