Reviews

Review: ‘Gatsby’s Child’ by Dorin Shumacher

by Mary B. Sellers | Dec 12, 2018 | Reviews, Vol. 2, Issue 3

Gatsby’s Child by Dorin Shumacher 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 Shumacher’s memoir, Gatsby’s Child, is one of those memoirs that lingers on...

Review: ‘Everyone at This Party Has Two Names’ by Brad Aaron Modlin

by George Hovis | Oct 24, 2018 | Issue 50, Reviews

Book Review Everyone at This Party Has Two Names (Poems) by Brad Aaron Modlin Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2016 88 pp., $14.00   As its title suggests, Brad Aaron Modlin’s debut collection (winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize) wrestles with the nature...

Charles Frazier Among the Swells

by George Hovis | Aug 29, 2018 | Issue 42, Reviews

Book Review Varina: A Novel Charles Frazier ecco (HarperCollins) 2018 Trade paperback 288 pp., $16.99   In his first three novels, Charles Frazier built a reputation not only for historical fiction rendered in lyrical prose but also for championing members of groups...

Review: ‘The Carrying: Poems’ by Ada Limón

by Fred Leebron | Aug 15, 2018 | Issue 40, Reviews

The Carrying: Poems Ada Limón Milkweed August 4, 2018 96 pp. $22 (hardcover)  The Carrying, Ada Limón’s fifth collection of poetry, is both an exquisite read for this moment in time and far beyond.  That makes absolute sense, because Limón is a poet who makes you...

Southern Ugliness Under Harsh Fluorescent Lights

by Emery Duffey | Aug 1, 2018 | Issue 38, Reviews

Book review Nobody Knows How It Got This Good Amos Jasper Wright IV Livingston Press 2018, 312 pp., $8.95 Amos Jasper Wright’s Nobody Knows How It Got This Good is a collection of short stories woven together in an intricate but rough fashion, a vehicle to examine...

Florida

by Fred Leebron | Jul 18, 2018 | Issue 36, Reviews

Book review Florida Lauren Groff Riverhead Books 2018, 288 pp., $27 Lauren Groff’s outstanding new collection of stories, Florida, is so much more than “just” a story collection, and so much more than “just” about Florida. Rather, in ten dazzling stories and a...