Tag: Cassandra Luca
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“If you can’t look away, you might as well laugh at this egg heist tragi-comedy”: Cassandra Luca on Deb Olin Unferth’s new novel Barn 8
Just as we continue to ask, “if a tree falls, and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound” we might also ask, “if 500 people plan to remove nearly one million hens from commercial barns, without attempting to make a political statement, is it still a political statement?” Deb Olin…
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Cassandra Luca Reviews Jonathan Blum’s short story collection The Usual Uncertainties: “A richly detailed, mixed (and eyebrow-furrowing) bag”
Jonathan Blum’s short story collection, The Usual Uncertainties, is cohesive in that each story showcases his uncanny observations; a brief paragraph sketch of one character is enough to reveal their essence. Blum can do this for houses too: “The mossy gables, the exalted peeling cornices and pale shingled walls, the quiet inclining street near the…
Heavy Feather Review 