REVIEW: Visiting Hours by Andrew McFayden-Ketchum
byPoetry. 96 pgs. Stephen F. Austin State University Press. March 2020. 978-1-62288-312-7. Nearly two decades ago, a young woman named Mary ended her own life, forever changing her loved ones’…
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byFiction. 90 pgs. Sublunary Editions. December 2021. 9781955190763. [Title] by [name of author] is a textbook example of the “experimental” novel that defies convention for the sake of defying convention….
REVIEW: Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu
byFiction. 272 pgs. Tin House Books. November 2021. 9781951142735. Kyle Lucia Wu’s debut novel Win Me Something is a rare book that centers biracial Asian identity. It asks: What happens…
REVIEW: The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting by Veronica Montes
byFiction. 18 pgs. Black Lawrence Press. September 2020. Veronica Montes was born in San Francisco and raised in the Filipino American enclave of Daly City, California. Winner of the Black…
REVIEW: Girls Against God by Jenny Hval
byFiction. 24o pgs. Verso Books. October 2020. ISBN: 978-1-788738-95-8. “I hate God,” Jenny Hval’s narrator begins in her novel Girls Against God.“What a smug thing to say, but I’m pretty smug….
REVIEW: Lost in Summerland by Barrett Swanson
byNonfiction. 304 pgs. Counterpoint. May 2021. ISBN: 978-1-640094-18-5. “Consciousness Razing,” the impeccably titled second entry in Barrett Swanson’s newly released essay collection, Lost In Summerland, centers on Evryman, a men’s retreat…
REVIEW: White Magic by Elissa Washuta
byNonfiction. 425 pgs. Tin House. April 2021. ISBN: 978-1-951142-39-1. “A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” – Carl Sagan “If you want to spot the trick in…
REVIEW: The Last Caucus in Iowa by Jim O’Loughlin
byNonfiction. 172 pgs. Ice Cube Press. October 2020. ISBN: 978-1-948509-20-6. I have a confession to make. I’ve lived in Iowa my whole life, and I’ve never been caucusing. Not once. Not…
REVIEW: Blackfishing the IUD by Caren Beilin
byNonfiction. 165 pgs. Wolfman Books. October 2019. ISBN: 978-1-733276-11-5. Caren Beilin’s Blackfishing the IUD is a compact puzzle that draws into it everything from the works of Walter Benjamin to corporate medical…
REVIEW: Wider than the Sky by Nancy Chen Long
byPoetry. 72 pgs. Diode Editions. March 2020. ISBN: 978-1-939728-36-4. Nancy Chen Long’s Wider than the Sky centers around the idea of memory: how memory forms our identity, how it wounds as…