Review

Experimental Men by M Kitchell Inside the Castle, May 2019 368 pages / Amazon / ItC   In the same fashion as other M Kitchell titles (some of which have…

Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Riverhead Books, July 2016 208 pages / Amazon   Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond has been called both a short story collection and a novel but it’s neither.…

prior atom by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen ma press, May 2019 136 pgs / Lulu.com   “Where technology leads, Art follows.” -Kenneth Goldsmith The broad categories of digital poetry and electronic writing…

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Graywolf Press, October 2017 248 pages / Amazon   In her compilation of eight thought-provoking narratives, presented in a refreshing variety…

Hero Victim Villain by Brice Maiurro Stubborn Mule Press, June 2019   In his second collection of poetry Hero Victim Villain, Maiurro spills his mind onto the page with fervent…

Better Times by Sara Batkie Nebraska Press, September 2018 156 pages / Amazon   Emerging author, Sara Batkie, has unleashed a sense of remorse for what could have been and…

The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo Doubleday, June 2019 544 pages / Amazon   We don’t tell our families everything. If we’re being honest, we don’t tell…

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh Simon and Schuster, September 2018 304 pages / Amazon   Kansas—a state…

The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine & Aviva Kana Dorothy, a publishing project, October 2018 128 pages / Amazon   I. I’ve been thinking…

Save the Bathwater by Marina Carreira’s Get Fresh Books LLC, June 2018 61 pgs / GFB   Marina Carreira’s first full-length book, Save the Bathwater, is like a concrete sidewalk,…

Since When by Bill Berkson Coffee House Press, November 2018 256 pages / Amazon   “Dress Trope” Critics should wear white jackets like lab technicians; curators, zoo keepers’ caps; and…

I’m From Nowhere by Lindsay Lerman Clash Books, forthcoming September 2019 172 pages / Amazon / Clash (preorders ship in June)   I’m From Nowhere is a portrait of Claire, whose…

What I Knew by Eleni Sikelianos Nighboat books, May 2019 80pages / Amazon / NBB In this age of increasing global social media craze, Eleni Sikelianos attests that she holds…

Theatre always felt a little hokey to me. Part of this is due to my own artistic bias; for most of my life I played the viola and moved within…