Review

A Girl Called Rumi by Ari Honarvar Forest Avenue Press, September 2021 Bookshop / Amazon 350 pages – fiction   A Girl Called Rumi is a novel of rejuvenation and…

Justine by Forsyth Harmon Tin House Press, March 2021 Bookshop / Amazon 144 pages – fiction   Forsyth Harmon’s debut novel, Justine, explores the idea behind the questions many of…

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan Little Brown, July 2021 Amazon 320 pages – fiction   Look out for belly laughs and low key freaky in A Touch of…

The Fat Sonnets by Samantha Zighelboim Argos Books, June 2018 SPD / Bookshop / Amazon 88 pages – poetry   As a poet, and a self-identified fat woman, reading Samantha…

Wolves by Jeffrey Bolden Tolsun Books, November 2020 SPD / Amazon 152 pages – memoir/essays   “Wolves” by Jeffrey ‘Boosie’ Bolden, a review of the last book of a young…

Women Who Misbehave by Sayantani Dasgupta India Viking, August 2021 Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 208 pages – short stories   In the opening of Women Who Misbehave, Sayantani Dasgupta…

An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989 Edited by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Erich Kessel Jr. Soberscove Press, November 2020. Bookshop / B&N / ArtBook / Amazon 240…

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse Milkweed, December 2020 Bookshop / Amazon 96 pages – poetry   3. The title of torrin a. greathouse’s debut…

On The Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing 50th Anniversary Edition, edited by Ben Estes and Joel Weishaus The Song Cave, April 2021 SPD / Bookshop / Amazon 258 pages…

Everything by Andrea Cohen Four Way Books, February 2021 Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 136 pages – poetry   It’s a word we use so often, everything, that we ought…

The Posthumous Works of Thomas Pilaster by Éric Chevillard Translated by Chris Clarke Sublunary Editions, March 2021 Bookshop / Amazon 182 pages – fiction   Pardon me, I was using…

Pandemic City by Caitlin Grace McDonnell Nauset Press, February 2021 Bookshop / Powell’s / Amazon 100 pages — poetry   Caitlin Grace McDonnell’s new full-length, Pandemic City, is just the…

Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung One World, July 2021 preorder Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 272 pages – fiction   In 1751, the word “vignette” made its way from the…

Wiki of Infinite Sorrows by Matthew Burnside Kernpunkt Press, January 2021   Matthew Burnside’s Wiki of Infinite Sorrows very well might be the sort of text for which the less…