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Erin Little

The Crying Book

Book Review by Erin Little

The Crying Book by Heather Christle. Catapult, 2019. $16.95, 208 pages.

In her author’s note, Heather Christle writes that The Crying Book began as a map of all the places she has cried. Over many years, the book grew to …

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Book Review by Erin Little

Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward. Scribner, 2017. $26, 304 pages.

Award-winning novelist Jesmyn Ward has been called both “the heir to Faulkner” and “a failed poet.” The former comes from a glowing piece in Time magazine about Ward, …

Mournful Adventure: An Interview with Peyton Burgess

Interview by Erin Little

The Fry Pans Aren’t Sufficing (Lavender Ink, 2016), the first story collection by Peyton Burgess, proves that a story about disaster relief can be whimsical and a story about a woman giving birth to a koala can be darkly poignant. …

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

Book Review by Erin Little

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, by Lucy Corin. McSweeney’s, 2013. $22, 183 pages.

There is a scene in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, perhaps the most beloved apocalyptic novel to date, in which a man and his son …

George Bishop: The Night of the Comet

Interview by Erin Little

Native Louisianan and Loyola alumnus (1983) George Bishop is emerging as a fresh and vibrant voice in the literary South. His previously successful novel Letter to My Daughter (Ballantine, 2010) showcased his ability to capture complex familial relationships in an …

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