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Author Archives: Amelia Fisher

A Review of Mars by Asja Bakić

November 4, 2019

Amelia Fisher

Translated from Croatian by Jennifer Zoble (New York: Feminist Press, 2019) A confession: I’m a chronic page-flipper. Usually I end up scouting ahead for the end of the chapter because I’m desperate to get it over with. But in Mars, … Continued

A Review of Cages by Sylvia Torti

March 5, 2018

Amelia Fisher

(New York, NY: Schaffner Press, 2017) Most people have felt it at one point or another: that dull ache in the center of your chest when someone ignores you. The slow wrenching in your stomach when you’re not being understood. … Continued

A Review of The Killer’s Dog by Gary Fincke

September 25, 2017

Amelia Fisher

(Denver, CO: Elixir Press, 2017) When bad things happen, there are certain words that inevitably pop up time and time again, like recurring by-products of tragedy. Everything’s going to be okay. This will pass. All things happen for a reason. … Continued

A Review of The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street by Jacob M. Appel

May 8, 2017

Amelia Fisher

(Minneapolis, MN: Howling Bird Press, 2016) At first, the story is familiar: a man walking his dog down the beach opens a bottle tossed up by the surf, releasing a grateful genie. But when promised any one thing his heart … Continued

A Review of Root and Shoot by Nathan Leslie

February 13, 2017

Amelia Fisher

(Norman, OK: Texture Press, 2015) If real life is stranger than fiction, Nathan Leslie’s new collection Root and Shoot is the splendid exception. Vivid, bizarre, and hilarious, each individual piece of short fiction forms a mosaic of the everyday and … Continued

A Review of Battle Rattle by Brandon Davis Jennings

November 21, 2016

Amelia Fisher

(Amazon Kindle Singles, 2016) Vez and Rake aren’t sorry to be deployed to the desert. This is what they trained for; this is what they’re meant to be doing. But when a mission gone south and ends with Rake picking … Continued

A Review of The Lightkeepers by Abbi Geni

April 25, 2016

Amelia Fisher

(Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2016) Nothing beats a good ghost story. Ghosts occupy a space between tragedy and terror, where no matter how horribly they might rattle their chains, a piece of them remains recognizable—even sympathetic. They illustrate what happens … Continued

A Review of Bad Sex by Clancy Martin

February 8, 2016

Amelia Fisher

(New York, NY: Tyrant Books, 2015) Clancy Martin’s Bad Sex is not just a novel about bad decisions. It’s about all the ways a human being can unravel, one loose thread leading to another, and then another, until nothing but … Continued

A Review of Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz

November 30, 2015

Amelia Fisher

(New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2015) I love eavesdropping. Who doesn’t? It may be a guilty pleasure, but as far as vices go there are plenty worse to choose from. There’s something so fascinating about sitting in a public … Continued

A Review of Bottle The Bottles The Bottles The Bottles by Lee Upton

September 17, 2015

Amelia Fisher

(Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2015) If you’ve ever driven down a mountain road at night, you have some idea of what it’s like to pick up Lee Upton’s new poetry collection Bottle The Bottles The Bottles The … Continued

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