Peterson (Paper Crown) suffuses this enchanting if opaque collection with references to television and literature.
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THE SADNESS OF WHIRLWINDS By Jim Peterson Reviewed By Publishers Weekly
A Review of Sebastian Matthews’ BEYOND REPAIR featured on Brevity!
At a writers’ gathering several years ago I had picked up a few basic details of the horrific, head-on, near-fatal automobile crash endured by Sebastian Matthews, his wife, and their young son. Because Sebastian and I are acquaintances from shared attendance at such gatherings and from my having published his work several times when I was editing The Georgia Review, I looked forward to learning more from his Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State. And I did learn, but most of the more was quite other than I had anticipated.
Aimee Liu’s GLORIOUS BOY Review on La Croix!
Translated from French: The desperate quest of a Western couple to find their 4-year-old son, who disappeared in 1942 in the heart of the Indian archipelago of Andaman.
JANE OF BATTERY PARK Reviewed by Third Coast Review
Everything about Jane of Battery Park is unexpected, precarious, paranoid, and quirky. Viner’s dialogue is at once banal, punchy, and self-aware, with as many laugh-out-loud moments as kick-in-the-gut ones.
GLORIOUS BOY by Aimee Liu reviewed by La viduité
Decode the savagery of silence, the language of separation and guilt, also deceive that of the enemy. A rather classic novel in its form, in its informed reconstruction of a little-known part of history (World War II in the Andaman Islands), The Magnificent Boy is a beautiful reflection on the links between men and how they escape language , ethnic groups, even filiations. Combining amateur ethnography and botany with the story of the war, Aimee Liu takes the reader along in this singular, moving story.
EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY reviewed in The Anchorage Daily News!
In her third book of poetry, Fairbanksan Nicole Stellon O’Donnell firmly establishes herself as both a remarkable artist and a commentator on the role of poet.
NEW MOONS, our upcoming anthology featuring Muslim-American writers, was featured in NewPages List of New and Noteworthy Books!
A dynamic collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by North American Muslims. From the Introduction: “The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions of Islam, as well as a full range of genres—poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, political writing, cultural writing, and of course plenty of texts which mix and match and blur all of these modes . . .
Review of THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE by Dariel Suarez from Latino Stories!
Havana breathes, swears and cries in Dariel Suárez’s first novel, The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press, 2021). With a plot that blends family stories and national history, this is a beautifully layered book that shows Cuba through the eyes of a native.
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE reviewed by On The Seawall!
This July, Cuba erupted into its widest protests in a generation. News reports credit food and medicine shortages and summer power outages as the catalysts for the demonstrations which have been countered by a government crackdown involving mass arrests and summary trials, sparking an international outcry.
Starred review given to Nicole Stellon’s book EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY!
In her inviting third poetry collection, Everything Never Comes Your Way, Nicole Stellon O’Donnell (You Are No Longer in Trouble) muses on the struggles and transcendence of “family-tethered Alaska life.” The title comes from the opening poem, addressed to a young baseball player, and introduces the element of chance, which O’Donnell further investigates in “Memoir,” about the vicissitudes of life and what we choose to omit from the record.
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner gets reviewed by Foreword!
A chance encounter changes the trajectory of two lives in Jaye Viner’s novel Jane of Battery Park.
Eight years ago, Jane and Daniel met and connected in Battery Park. She saw a cute surfer dude. He saw a gorgeous girl. And the man watching them saw Daniel as a threat.
Jane and Daniel’s plans to meet the next day were derailed when Daniel was kidnapped by the Vanguard, a group of conservative religious domestic terrorists who take celebrities whom they feel showcase base morals and stream their “trials.” Consequences for a guilty verdict are immediate.
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner reviewed in the Midwest Book Review!
Read the glowing review here!
Dexter L. Booth’s ABRACADABRA, SUNSHINE was featured on 10 Can’t Miss New Books!
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FROM THE CAVES by Thea Prieto reviewed in Publishers Weekly!
In Prieto’s trenchant debut, the survivors of an apocalypse navigate a scorched land full of desolation and desperation. Among the enigmatic cast is Mark, a bossy young man; Tie, a compassionate pregnant woman; Teller, a wise old man with a limp; and Sky, an impressionable eight-year-old mourning the death of Green, formerly his mentor and quasi-leader of the group.
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE by Dariel Suarez has an appearance in The Massachusetts Review!
In his debut novel, Dariel Suarez takes the reader into the heart of Cuba, of Havana, of the people of the island. As a Cuban American, I notice how the people of the island are often erased from the stories set in Cuba, the stories written “about” Cuba. Cubans often suffer from a dehumanizing romanticization if not utter erasure from an imperial gaze that doesn’t know how to fit the people into their view of the island they vacation in or dream about. Yet Suarez is too skilled a writer, knows the people of Cuba too well, and The Playwright’s House has too much heart and power, to do anything other than keep Cubans front and center in this novel.
Read the full review here!