(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
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
(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
(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