The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories, by Marina Keegan. Scribner, 2014. $23, 208 pages.
In the first essay in Marina Keegan’s book The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories, she writes, “We’re so young. We’re so young. …
Book Review
Kitten Clone
Kitten Clone, by Douglas Coupland, Visual Editions, 2014, $40, 150 pages.
The London based book publisher Visual Editions‘ “Writers in Residence” series pairs narrative nonfiction with Magnum photographers to create a body of work that exemplifies the power …
After The Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy, One Survivor’s Story
After The Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy, One Survivor’s Story, by Lou Kasischke, Good Hart Publishing, 2014, $25, 311 pages.
After The Wind is an autobiographical account of Lou Kasischke’s summit attempt of Mount Everest as part of the 1996 …
Remembering The Reader: Hannah Gamble’s Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast
Your Invitation To A Modest Breakfast, by Hannah Gamble, Fence Books, 2012. $16, 63 pages.
On two occasions, I cancelled my subscription to Poetry when I found myself avoiding the magazine after it arrived in the mail. I initially …
Rethinking Dystopian Fiction: Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl
The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi, Night Shade Books, 2010, $10, 376 pages.
Dystopian fiction often assumes that in the future sexism and racism will be figured out. Just look at The Hunger Games. Katniss is never …
The Great Forgetting: Ralph Adamo’s Ever: Poems 2000 – 2014
Ever: Poems 2000 – 2014, by Ralph Adamo, Lavender Ink, 2014. $16, 102 pages.
In the fourteen years since Ralph Adamo (former editor of The New Orleans Review) published his last collection, Waterblind (Portals Press, 2002), both the …
Collateral Light
Julia Cohen, Collateral Light, Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013. $15.95, 92 pages.
Julia Cohen’s second full-length poetry collection is a graceful and brutal welcoming into the body of our own lives: an invitation to hold a magnifying glass up to …
The David Foster Wallace Reader
The David Foster Wallace Reader, Little, Brown & Co., 2014. $35.00, 976 pages.
I’ve been on the fence about writing a review of The David Foster Wallace Reader since I received my copy in the mail. I’m fascinated by …
The Dig
The Dig, by Cynan Jones, Coffee House Press, 2015. $15.95, 156 pages.
Trembling with taut, visceral prose, Cynan Jones’s The Dig is a sparse work of searing beauty. Set in rural Wales, The Dig follows the lives of two …
Sympathetic People
Sympathetic People, by Donna Baier Stein, Serving House Books, 2013. $13.95, 148 pages.
“What would life be without hunger?” The narrator in Donna Baier Stein’s short story “Coming Clean” asks a man with whom she has had an affair. …
