The Literary Review
  • Read
  • Submit
  • Subscribe
  • Archive
  • About
current issue

Looking Backward

Selections from the TLR Archive

Toggle navigation

An International Journal of Contemporary Writing

cover of the archive issue, type over picture of porcelain sailor boy
Subscribe

Categories

  • Books
  • Coming of Age
  • Editor's Letter
  • Essays
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • TLR SHARE
  • Wonder
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Serving House Books

An Interview with Julia Van Middlesworth, Author of Daddy Dead

July 29, 2019

Elizabeth Jaeger

(Florham Park, NJ: Serving House Books, 2019) I read incessantly. This morning, I was at a department meeting at work and my supervisor commented that she always sees me with a book — a different one every week. I read … Continued

A Review of Paris, Etc., edited by Jessie Vail Aufiery

August 13, 2018

Cynthia-Marie Marmo O'Brien

(New Jersey: Serving House Books 2016) Paris, Etc. is an exquisite and elegant collection of poems, stories, and essays has the city of lights as its muse – and for most of the authors, it is a muse they romanticize as … Continued

A Review of Plutonium & Platinum Blonde by Angela M. Brommel

June 11, 2018

Letisia Cruz

(New Jersey: Serving House Books, 2018) Angela M. Brommel’s debut poetry chapbook, Plutonium & Platinum Blonde, is both a séance in the Mojave Desert and a haunting love letter to Las Vegas. It delivers us to the center of America’s … Continued

© 2026 The Literary Review