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Author Archives: Trevor Payne

A Review of Jazz and Palm Wine by Emmanuel Dongala

January 22, 2018

Trevor Payne

Translated by Dominic Thomas (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017) A fun fact I didn’t know before experiencing the short stories of Emmanuel Dongala: there are two Congos, with the two capital cities, Brazzaville and Kinshasa, directly across the Congo … Continued

A Review of Bright Air Black by David Vann

March 20, 2017

Trevor Payne

(New York, NY: Black Cat, 2017) Toward the end of Euripides’s Medea, Jason (erstwhile Argonaut, theiver of the Golden Fleece) abandons his wife Medea to marry Glauce, the daughter of the king of Corinth. Hard to blame him quite – … Continued

A Review of Am I Alone Here? by Peter Orner

December 14, 2016

Trevor Payne

Am I Here Alone? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live (New York, NY: Catapult, 2016) In his intriguing new book Am I Alone Here? Peter Orner plays with the difference between reading and writing as therapeutic human … Continued

A Review of Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua

September 26, 2016

Trevor Payne

(Detroit, MI: Willow Books, 2016) My personal sense of racial identity is diffuse – I’m a half Ukrainian-quarter Scottish-quarter English Canadian, making me, I suppose, white – and my children are an even more complicated mix: divide my fractions by … Continued

A Review of The Sleep Garden by Jim Krusoe

January 25, 2016

Trevor Payne

(Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2016) Jim Krusoe’s surreal novel The Sleep Garden begins with four profound questions coupled to a whimsical statement of doubt: Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?   And anyway, … Continued

A Review of Fox Tooth Heart by John McManus

November 9, 2015

Trevor Payne

(Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2015) In his new collection of stories, Fox Tooth Heart, John McManus puts his arm around our shoulder and walks us out to the margin, calmly pointing out all the unfortunate souls who have stepped across … Continued

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