Tag: Dave Housley

  • Shannon Wolf on THE OTHER ONES, a novel by Dave Housley

    Shannon Wolf on THE OTHER ONES, a novel by Dave Housley

    In Dave Housley’s newest offering from Alan Squire Publishing, a multitude of characters reckon with complacency as The Other Ones: coworkers left behind after failing to play in the lottery and watching their undeserving colleagues win big. Moving from the very concrete—the doldrums of office politics—to the abstract, strange, and disturbing—the wandering spirit of a…

  • How Long Has It Been Since You Really Rocked? A Review of IF I KNEW THE WAY, I WOULD TAKE YOU HOME, by Dave Housley

    How Long Has It Been Since You Really Rocked? A Review of IF I KNEW THE WAY, I WOULD TAKE YOU HOME, by Dave Housley

    Imagine a trust fall where, instead of a bundle of coworkers who you didn’t like to begin with, you drop into the arms of Metallica. Or The Ramones, or Nirvana, or even Jimmy Buffett, if that’s your jam. The players in If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home are permanently ready to…

  • Commercial Fiction, stories by Dave Housley, reviewed by Nicholas Grider

    Commercial Fiction, stories by Dave Housley, reviewed by Nicholas Grider

    Dave Housley’s Commercial Fiction is exactly what the title suggests, in two senses of the term. First, it’s literally short fiction that curls itself around standard network TV commercials, with anything from Taco Bell to Cialis given the brief 3D space of psychologically complex characters, many of whom, beneath the plywood façade of the commercial,…