Reviews

Everyone at This Party Has Two Names | Book Review

by TNSF | Oct 24, 2018 | Reviews, Vol. 1, Issue 50

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...

Charles Frazier Among the Swells | Book Review

by TNSF | Aug 29, 2018 | Reviews, Vol. 1, Issue 42

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...

The Carrying: Poems | Book Review

by TNSF | Aug 15, 2018 | Reviews, Vol. 1, Issue 40

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 | Book Review

by TNSF | Aug 1, 2018 | Reviews, Vol. 1, Issue 38

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 | Book Review

by TNSF | Jul 18, 2018 | Reviews, Vol. 1, Issue 36

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...

Let’s All Die Happy | Book Review

by TNSF | Jul 4, 2018 | Reviews, Vol. 1, Issue 34

Book reviewLet’s All Die HappyErin Adair-HodgesUniversity of Pittsburgh Press 2017, 112 pp., $15.95 The poems in Let’s All Die Happy by Erin Adair-Hodges are consistently and consciously aware of breath, and their process of breathing is often labored and the poems...