Tag: Ben Tanzer
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Book Review: John Vanderslice on Ben Tanzer’s Story Collection Sex and Death
With a title as provocatively Freudian as Sex and Death, a reader might expect a book of stories that never ends, or one that encapsulates the life of every person who has ever existed on the planet. Well, a concise, easily portable collection like this one (a mere seventy-two pages long) from Ben Tanzer is…
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Book Review: Sarah-Jane Abate on The New York by Ben Tanzer
Ben Tanzer’s The New York Stories are both about and not about his hometown, something he references in the introduction to the collection. Tanzer renames Binghamton, New York, “Two Rivers,” a reference to the rivers that meet around the city—the Susquehanna and the Chenango. Tanzer plays with the idea of town and knowledge, the way all…
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Lost in Space: A Father’s Journey There and Back Again, essays by Ben Tanzer, reviewed by Leesa Cross-Smith
I don’t read a lot of essay collections and I’m way pickier about the essays I read. I’ll pretty much read any work of fiction if it’s short enough, but essays, no. I wish I could explain exactly why or what it is, but I cannot. All I know is that when an essay is…
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A Review of The Way We Sleep, a multi-genre anthology edited by C. James Bye & Jessa Bye, reviewed by edward j rathke
Anthologies, to me, often run into the same problems that short-story collections tend to fall into: monotony. When stories are linked stylistically or thematically or by content, they tend to wear me out. A great story becomes mediocre when it is stuck between stories too similar in tone or style or content to allow it…
Heavy Feather Review 