REVIEW: Family Meal by Bryan Washington
byFiction. 320 pgs. Riverhead Books. October 2023. 9780593421093. In his latest novel, Black queer author Bryan Washington remakes the world in his own image. Family Meal (October 2023, Riverhead Books)—like…
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REVIEW: The Gunman and The Carnival by Catherine Gammon
byDisclaimer: Bridge Eight published Catherine Gammon’s previous novel China Blue, winner of the Bridge Eight Fiction Prize in 2021. Short Fiction. 144 pgs. Baobab Press. February 2024. 9781936097500. Catherine Gammon wields…
REVIEW: Girl at the End of the World by Erin Carlyle
byPoetry. 79 pgs. Driftwood Press. September 2024. 9781949065336. Girl at the End of the World, a collection of poetry by Erin Carlyle, plunges the reader into the depths of memory,…
REVIEW: Burn Book by Kara Swisher
byNonfiction. 320 pgs. Simon & Shuster. February 2024. 9781982163891. No Burn Baby, Burn Book, but an informative, entertaining Burn Book. A Tech Love Story. (!) The parenthetical screamer above is…
REVIEW: Wellness by Nathan Hill
byFiction. 624 pgs. Knopf. September 2023. 9780593536117. Wellness tricks you into thinking it’s going to be a love story. The brilliant novel starts out alternating perspectives between a boy watching…
REVIEW: Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
byFiction. 320 pgs. Scriber. March 2024. 9781668020852. As a modern retelling of the Persephone myth, “Fruit of the Dead” is not the Persephone myth you know. A cautionary tale and…
REVIEW: Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims
byFiction. 202 pgs. Two Dollar Radio. November 2023. 9781953387356. Bennett Sims’s experimental collection Other Minds and Other Stories explores the ways we might potentially fail at creating a legacy. When…
REVIEW: I’d Like To Say Sorry, But There’s No One To Say Sorry To by Mikolaj Grynberg
byFiction. 160 pgs. The New Press. February 2022. 978-1-62097-683-8. Mikolai Grynberg’s first book of fiction, I’d Like To Say Sorry, But There’s No One To Say Sorry To, is about…
REVIEW: Sons, Daughters by Ivana Bodrožić
byFiction. 256 pgs. Seven Stories Press. April 2024. 9781644213353. Humans, famously, are social animals, our lives inseparable from a complex web of relationships. But we are also interior beings with…
REVIEW: Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
byFiction. 336 pgs. Double Day Books. July 2023. 9780385545150. Long a staple of genre fiction, sequels and series have never held much favor in the blue-ribbon literary scene. Because “works…