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Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism | Book Review
Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism Foreward by May-Lee Chai ISBN: 9781940596297 Lookout Books, April 30, 2019 Trade paper with French flaps: 296 pages, $18.95 There is something transgressive in the act of reading a...
The Lightness of Water and Other Stories | Book Review
The Lightness of Water and Other Stories By Rhonda Browning White ISBN 978-1-950413-08-9 Press 53, October 2019 Hardcover: 146 pages, $24.99 In this riveting debut collection, winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, debut writer Rhonda Browning White offers...
Again and Again | Book Review
HAIKU4U By Gilmore Tamny ISBN: 978-0578463445 Ohio Edit, April 2019 Perfect-bound trade paper, 64 pages, $12.00 I sat with HAIKU4U for several days. I read through the collection all the way through—something that can be done in an hour or so—and thought to...
The Lost Country | Book Review
The Lost CountryBy William GayISBN: 978-1-945814-52-5Dzanc Books, July 2018Hardcover: 368 pages, $26.95 William Gay’s posthumous novel, THE LOST COUNTRY, is an incredibly resonant and engaging story on many fronts: its path to publication, its constantly compelling...
Gatsby’s Child | Book Review
Gatsby’s Child by Dorin Schumacher ISBN 978-1-7320091-6-5 Mastodon Publishing, Oct. 2018 Nonfiction 234 pp., $18.00 Glossy Frenetic Family Dysfunction Equal parts chilling and nostalgic, Dorin Schumacher’s memoir, Gatsby’s Child, is one of those memoirs that lingers...
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