REVIEW: Lifeline by Abbey Lee Nash
byFiction. 294 pgs. Tony Fox Press. May 2018. ISBN: 978-1-946501-06-6. “You can do anything for 28 days.” These are the words that Eli Ross hears from his mother just before being…
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REVIEW: We Were Called Specimens: An Oral Archive of Deity Marjorie by Jason Teal
byFiction. 156 pgs. Kerpunkt Press. July 2020. ISBN: 978-1-732325-17-3. In 1922, James Joyce published Ulysses, a tome that is, among other things, known for its wild fluctuations in narrative style to…
REVIEW: The Devoted by Blair Hurley
byFiction. 320 pgs. W. W. Norton. 2019. ISBN: 978-0-393357-30-1. If you have read any short pieces of Blair Hurley’s—perhaps her 2018 Pushcart Prize Winning “The Home for Buddhist Widows”—you have enjoyed…
REVIEW: One Surviving Story by Howard Firkin
byAnthology. 204 pgs. In Case of Emergency Press. August 2019. ISBN: 978-0-994352-57-6. The newly-released One Surviving Story might prove to be a real aid for the survival of one’s state of mind…
REVIEW: Mamiaith by Ness Owen
byPoetry. 48 pgs. Arachne Press. August 2019. ISBN: 978-1-909208-77-3. “Mamiaith” (pronounced máh-mee-aith) is Welsh for “mother-tongue,” a title that previews the complexity and fecundity of the origins of Ness Owen’s poems…