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Author Archives: Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

A Review of Gateway to Paradise by Matthew Vollmer

September 12, 2016

Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

(New York, NY: Persea Books, 2015) Every year in May, millions of students at thousands of high schools around the world take Advanced Placement (AP) Exams. Considering you are the type of person who has stopped surfing the net to read … Continued

Alas, Poor Bob! ||| Hypertext Magazine

June 1, 2016

Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

If you look up Polish composer and pianist André Tchaikowsky online, you will find something unique in his Wikipedia entry. Between Life and Career and Bibliography,there is a section simply titled Skull. What is notable is not his actual skull, … Continued

A Review of The Year of Perfect Happiness by Becky Adnot-Haynes

July 9, 2015

Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

(Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2014) Think of one year of your life when you were perfectly happy. Not a special day, or that week you spent in Cabo, but a full year. Can you do it? In … Continued

A Review of The Virgins by Pamela Erens

January 15, 2015

Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

(Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2014) Before I understood what it meant to be in love, I was afraid of sex. At school, I learned sex before marriage meant risking pregnancy or catching a disease. At home, there was the … Continued

A Review of An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

June 16, 2014

Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

(Shelter Island, NY: Black Cat, 2014) Rape culture is a term, somewhat overused lately, that describes the normalization of sexual assault in a society. Break it down, and you have two charged, weighty words that mean vastly different things to … Continued

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