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Dzanc Books

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

A Review of The Lost Country by William Gay

November 19, 2018

Briana McDonald

(Ann Harbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2018) The Lost Country was published posthumously, ten years after author William Gay’s death. Fans of Gay’s work speculate when the text was composed, debating whether it fell toward the beginning or end of his … Continued

A Review of Movieola! by John Domini

February 6, 2017

Alexander Oliver

(Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2016) It’s not every book of short stories that feels like a book of poetry. Equally, it’s not every book that reads like a film. Enter John Domini’s Movieola!, a slim collection for those who … Continued

A Review of The Suicide of Claire Bishop by Carmiel Banasky

April 4, 2016

Lisa Grgas

(Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2015) In his book Synchronicity (1952), Carl Jung tells the story of a young woman patient whose psychological inaccessibility proved to be both a frustration and challenge. Despite Jung’s best therapeutic efforts, this patient always … Continued

A Review of The City at Three P.M. by Peter LaSalle

December 21, 2015

Jeff Knops

(The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Travelling. Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2015) As a kid of the 70’s from a rural town in the upper Midwest, I dreamt of seeing the world. I used to mail-order foreign … Continued

A Review of My Life as a Mermaid by Jen Grow

June 11, 2015

Cory Johnston

(Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2015) Coming into my adult life in the post-9/11, bubble-and-burst epoch of my country’s history, I have formed some jumbled impressions of what precisely other people mean when they refer to ‘The American Dream.’ It … Continued

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