Reviews

Emerald City | Book Review

by TNSF | Feb 12, 2020 | Reviews, Vol. 3 Issue 6

Emerald City by Brian Birnbaum ISBN: 978-1950122004 Dead Rabbits Books, Sept 2019 416 pages, $18.99 Late in Brian Birnbaum’s excellent debut, Emerald City, a young man signs to his deaf mother, “I’m trying to tell you that I’m unhappy” (378). Without so much as a...

Love, Bully Love | Book Review

by TNSF | Jan 15, 2020 | Reviews, Vol. 3, Issue 4

Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy ISBN 978-1-950413-03-4 Press 53, April 1, 2019 9 x 6 paperback, 84 pages The neighbor’s poppies have turned dusty. The day’s end breathes this, another storm. […] What was here is now gone. This evening we inhale the dry skin of...

The Summer of Dead Birds | Book Review

by TNSF | Dec 18, 2019 | Reviews, Vol. 3, Issue 2

The Summer of Dead Birds by Ali Liebegott ISBN: 9781936932504 Feminist Press, 2019 103 pages, $17.95 The fourth book by Ali Liebegott, a double Lambda Literary Award winner and writer for the television show Transparent, is an elegy of loss and life, heartbreak and...

Dismantling the Confederacy | Book Review

by TNSF | Oct 23, 2019 | Reviews, Vol. 2, Issue 25

A Sin By Any Other Name By Robert W. Lee ISBN: 9780525576389 Convergent Books, Apr 02, 2019 Hardcover: 192 Pages, $25.00 The Tarboro Three By Brian Lampkin SKU: SB2008 Scuppernong Editions 128 Pages, $18.00 Two new works of racial activism from North Carolina provide...

Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism | Book Review

by TNSF | Oct 9, 2019 | Reviews, Vol. 2, Issue 24

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

by TNSF | Sep 11, 2019 | Reviews, Vol. 2, Issue 22

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...