REVIEW: True Fiction by Sohrab Homi Fracis
byShort 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…
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REVIEW: Year of the Buffalo by Aaron Burch
byNovel. 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: Baby is a Thing Best Whispered by Keely O’Shaughnessy
byFlash Fiction. 79 pgs. Alien Buddha Press. August 2022. 9798844456459. In her flash fiction collection Baby is a Thing Best Whispered (Alien Buddha Press), author Keely O’Shaughnessy assembles a series…
The New Speculative Fiction: A Conversation Between Nathanial White & Brandon Teigland
byBrandon Teigland: We are both self-proclaimed writers of speculative fiction. Why have you chosen this moniker to describe your writing? How is speculative fiction different from science fiction? Nathanial White:…
REVIEW: Slight Return by Rebecca Wolf
byPoetry. 116 pgs. Wave Books. October 2022. 9781950268658. Rebecca Wolff’s stunning new collection, Slight Return, (forthcoming from Wave Books), attacks culture with a sharp knife of fragmented lines and lucid…
REVIEW: Shadowselves by Jason Ockert
byFiction. 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: Velvet Hounds by Aimee Seu
byPoetry. 73 pgs. University of Akron Press. March 2022. I have always felt sorry for the Iliad’s unsparing treatment of Paris. Saddled with the burden of divine Judgement; scorned and…
REVIEW: O by Niki Tulk
byPoetry. 94 pgs. Driftwood. July 2022. Poetry is dangerous. It disrupts the order of things and burrows under society’s collective skin, an itch it can’t scratch without removing the wound…
REVIEW: DADDY ISSUES by Sal Kang
byPoetry. 32 pgs. fifth wheel press. June 2022. “1.0: my childhood was a lesson in discovering the body as a hazard” This line opens up “poem for protection,” a multipage…
REVIEW: The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
byFiction. 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…