Review: Dave Fitzgerald on Cialis, Verdi, Gin, Jag, a novel by Adam Johnson

In my younger and more vulnerable years, I used to have a very bad habit that routinely got me into … More

Birth of Eros, a novel by Debra Di Blasi, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

Size matters. I have yet to forget the first time I read those words, (and yes, in the exact context … More

Dave Fitzgerald on Interrogating the Abyss, collected works by Chris Kelso

What is the abyss? Several years back, I went hiking in the Catskills with my now-wife, my childhood best friend, … More

Cinema, a novel by Samuel Kaye, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

Long before I started writing book reviews, I had a steady (unpaid) gig writing movie reviews (and still contribute occasional, … More

Nympholepsy, a collaborative writing by Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein & Lisa Marie Basile, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

I hope the following statement will come across in the spirit in which it’s intended (i.e. not too pervy) but … More

Anybody Home? a horror novel by Michael J. Seidlinger, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

It’s sometimes disturbing to think about the ways in which traditions evolve. Nothing, after all, starts out as a tradition. … More

The Autodidacts, a novel by Thomas Kendall, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

There is a passage in what I have come to think of as, gun to my head, my all-time favorite … More

David Leo Rice’s New Novel The New House, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

My wife and I still talk often about the term “art monster”—first coined in Jenny Offill’s 2014 novel Dept. of … More

What Are You, a new novel by Lindsay Lerman, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

In some ways, this feels like the book I’ve been waiting for my whole life. I have been calling myself … More

Terminal Park, a novel by Gary J. Shipley, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

How do you write about the meaning behind a book whose core subject is essentially the end of meaning? How … More

Dave Fitzgerald on Jared Joseph’s A Book About Myself Called Hell

One of the first things I did after the initial wave of COVID-19 sent me and my 10,000 some-odd coworkers … More

Dave Fitzgerlad Reviews Amygdalatropolis, a novel by B.R. Yeager

For the first few pages, I thought B.R. Yeager’s Amygdalatropolis was some kind of cyberpunk dystopia. Its protagonist, /1404er/, exists … More

ANGEL HOUSE, a novel by David Leo Rice, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

ANGEL HOUSE is the kind of novel that will mean something different to everyone who reads it, and indeed, will likely … More