Tag: Atticus Books
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Hoopty Time Machines, fairy tales for grown-ups by Christopher DeWan, reviewed by Eric Andrew Newman
It’s very fitting that Christopher DeWan, the author if the new book Hoopty Time Machines, lives in Los Angeles. After all L.A., or La La Land as it’s also known, is the land of dreams and fairy tales. In his previous book, Working and Other Essays, there’s an essay in which DeWan references the permeability…
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BELIEF IS ITS OWN KIND OF TRUTH, MAYBE, by Lori Jakiela
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe tells the story, on one level, of Lori Jakiela’s search for her birth mother. She encounters more than she expects in this search, however, and the story ends up being as much a self-exploration as it is a search for someone outside of herself. It’s a complicated,…
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The Shimmering Go-Between, by Lee Klein
Lee Klein’s The Shimmering Go-Between asks for no spoilers on the jacket copy. A piece of paper lodged in the review copy almost demands it. Mostly I’d argue that all plots have been seen before (this argument in itself is simply a rehash of one made many times before by other, more scholarly people, who…
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Fondly, by Colin Winnette
When Fondly arrived in the mail I tore open the package and stared at the cover for a second, looked at the back and thought, Yes that is an exploding face. I did not know what to expect from this book. I quickly found out that Fondly was not just a single book but two…
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Review: The Law of Strings, by Steven Gillis
As I am an idiot, it’s unsurprising that I was not the speaker at my college graduation. I was nominated but ended up being runner-up, blew it in the final interview stages when I was asked what I learned from my non-liberal arts classes—math and science, specifically—and replied, “I learned how to write about torture.”…
Heavy Feather Review 