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Author Archives: Jeff Bursey

Review: Bloomland by John Englehardt

February 3, 2020

Jeff Bursey

(Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2019) There’s rarely a time when one can write about a novel dealing with a mass shooting in the United States without one or more real-life incidents freshly in the news. The media narrative starts … Continued

An Interview with S.D. Chrostowska, Author of Matches

July 1, 2019

Jeff Bursey

In 2013 an editor of a Canadian journal asked me to review a new Dalkey title written by S.D. Chrostowska. Perhaps he figured that I might appreciate the experimentalism behind Permission: A Novel (2013). “We run once again down that … Continued

A Review of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom! by Zachary Tyler Vickers

May 29, 2017

Jeff Bursey

(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016) A strip mall and a tornado, quirky products and people bothered by subterranean grievances, interoffice rivalries and politics, a Venn diagram approach to characters and events, and a town that is damned by the … Continued

A Review of Bird by Noy Holland

June 27, 2016

Jeff Bursey

(Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2015) Noy Holland’s previous work includes the short story collections The Spectacle of the Body (1994), What Begins with Bird (2005), and Swim for the Little One First (2012), and they have been praised for their … Continued

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