Tag: Coffee House Press
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“What It Would Be Like to Fall”: A Conversation with Brian Evenson by Daniel Miller
Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, including the forthcoming story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press, 2016). Coffee House Press will also be reissuing his American Library Association’s award-winning novel, Last Days, as well as two more novels: The Open Curtain and Father of Lies. He has translated…
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The Story of My Teeth, a novel by Valeria Luiselli, reviewed by Nick Sweeney
Translations are often beautiful and alluring for myriad reasons. They offer a glimpse of a different language and structure, they are between two worlds: meaning and thought. The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli and translated by Christina MacSweeney is the true definition of collaboration. It is a work of art meant to be viewed…
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Fiction Review: Nick Sweeney on Upright Beasts by Lincoln Michel
Short story collections, especially those containing a multitude of stories, are difficult to gauge. How much constitutes a good or even great collection? Can one or two pieces bring all that good vibe down? Do we feel anything connecting all these pieces together? In Lincoln Michel’s debut collection, Upright Beasts, we find answers to all…
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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, a novel by Eimear McBride, reviewed by Jack Kaulfus
Eimear McBride’s debut, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, has finally seen its day. The winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction, and numerous other awards, is a darkly thrilling coming-of-age story of an Irish girl trapped in a life bent on killing her before she becomes…
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The Deep Zoo, short essays by Rikki Ducornet, reviewed by Allegra Hyde
“It is the work of the writer to move beyond the simple definitions or descriptions of things,” states Rikki Ducornet in her new essay collection The Deep Zoo. To her, the unmapped world is of greater interest, as it presents an opportunity “to bring a dream to life through the alchemy of language; to move…
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How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, a story collection by Kate Bernheimer, reviewed by Allegra Hyde
In the title story of Kate Bernheimer’s latest collection, How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, we encounter a universe where dolls talk and little girls receive trays of lollipops and jelly beans as nighttime snacks. A universe, it would seem, of childhood fantasy. And yet, as with the other stories in the…
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Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow, an essay collection by Andy Sturdevanton, reviewed by Nichole L. Reber
Books about place have an almost guaranteed audience of locals who already live in that place and travelers, who may have or may eventually travel to the locale of topic. That can’t necessarily be said of Andy Sturdevant’s book about place, Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow. The 233-page collection of short pieces (called essays…
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