“For a people who are neither Spanish nor live in a country in which Spanish is the first language; for a people who live in a country in which English…
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Safe Inside the Violence by Christopher Irvin 280 Steps, 2015 206 pages – 280 Steps / Amazon Lately there have been a handful of crime novels and short story collections that dip their…
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There are many things that could be said about Brian Keene, and many of them, good and bad, are said online every day. However, this is my intro, so you…
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Strange Animals by Chad Kultgen Harper Perennial, 2015 272 pages – Harper Perennial / Amazon The problem with becoming a renowned provocateur is that one must constantly deliver, and Chad…
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GI: Sure, that thing about writing what you know is crap, but I have to ask: how many times have you hovered above a situation thinking “I shouldn’t be doing…
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Jeremy Robert Johnson is in that very short list of authors I get angry about when folks tell me they haven’t read their work. Fast, unique, incredibly smart, dark, gory,…
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Brian Allen Carr is one of the best writers working today. And yes, I’m willing to throw down if you care to disagree on that level. His work is fresh…
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Asura Girl by Otaro Maijo Translated by Stephen Snyder Haikasoru, November 2014 – Published in Japan in 2003 300 pages – Haikasoru / Amazon Otaro Maijo’s Asura Girl is the kind of…
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Their Days Are Numbered is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online novel written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis.…
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JS Breukelaar has a name that’s as awesome as her fiction. When it comes to writing weirdness in a way that it packs as much strangeness as intelligence, there are…
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One of the literary projects I’m most excited about for in 2015 is Ladybox Books. A branch of Broken River Books focusing on women, Ladybox was born out of an…
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli Translated by Christina MacSweeney Coffee House Press, May 2014 Coffee House Press / Amazon There’s a young mother in Mexico City who’s writing a novel…
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Once in a while a new author will come around with a debut novel that makes you sit up a little straighter and take notice. Michael Kazepis is one of…
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Once in a while a book by an author I don’t know lands on my desk and blows me away. Letitia Trent’s Echo Lake did just that. I went in…
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