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Gloria Beth Amodeo

Review: Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church Edited by Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal

June 8, 2020

Gloria Beth Amodeo

(Indianapolis, IN: Epiphany Publishing, 2019) “I was taught that it was Eve who ended paradise with her hunger,” Lyz Lenz writes in “Cottonwood Creek”—one of the essays in Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church. “But lately, I have … Continued

A Review of Camellia Street by Mercè Rodoreda

February 18, 2019

Gloria Beth Amodeo

Translated from Catalan by David Rosenthal (Rochester, NY: Open Letter Books, 2018) Cecilia C is found on the street as a baby and pointed towards the only splendor in her situation. The gentleman who adopts her lifts her into his … Continued

A Review of Modern Love by Constance DeJong

December 4, 2017

Gloria Beth Amodeo

(Brooklyn, NY: Primary Information & Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) “I’ve been seeing too many artists,” Constance DeJong tells us at the beginning of Modern Love. “I can’t go through life looking at how objects are colored, cut out and arranged. … Continued

A Review of Family Genus Species by Kevin Allardice

September 11, 2017

Gloria Beth Amodeo

(San Francisco, CA: Outpost19, 2017) Vee is not adept at interpersonal connection, but she’s at a birthday party anyway for her nephew, Charlie. She has bought him a toy dinosaur and it’s sitting in a box that she can’t put … Continued

A Review of I Called Him Necktie by Milena Michiko Flašar

December 4, 2014

Gloria Beth Amodeo

Translated from the German by Sheila Dickie (New York, NY: New Vessel Press, 2014) Taguchi Hiro is sitting across from an older businessman who wears a necktie, a “salaryman” as they say in Japan. They are strangers who find themselves at the … Continued

A Review of Commentary by Marcelle Sauvageot

September 3, 2014

Gloria Beth Amodeo

Translated from the French by Christine Schwartz Hartley & Anna Moschovakis (Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013) Marcelle Sauvageot’s Commentary begins with a woman who begs herself for words. She can sense that her lover has pulled away. The anticipation … Continued

A Review of The Sad Passions by Veronica Gonzales Peña

March 6, 2014

Gloria Beth Amodeo

(Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2013) What are The Sad Passions? Something about the cover struck me as kindred at first sight. A Francesca Woodman photograph of a woman hanging by her fingers in a doorway, face covered in hair. The scene is incipient, set … Continued

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