Caren Beilin’s Revenge of the Scapegoat begins and ends in a café in Philadelphia, where the protagonist, Iris, waits for … More
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Stranger Territories: A Review of Jen George’s THE BABYSITTER AT REST
The Babysitter at Rest, Jen George’s audaciously good debut collection of fiction, opens, significantly, on the occasion of a birthday. … More
It Was Getting Dark Outside but I Didn’t Want to Stop Reading to Turn the Light On: A Short Interview with Story Prize Judge Joanna Ruocco
I found Joanna Ruocco’s work indirectly—or rather, because contributor and friend Matt Weinkam had interviewed her for the site. And, … More
VERTIGO, by Joanna Walsh
Vertigo is the kind of book it’s easy to let yourself be fooled by. It is smaller than the average … More
To Escape to Something Beyond the World: An Interview with Joanna Ruocco
Joanna Ruocco has been busy. In the last five years, she has written five books, including A Compendium of Domestic … More
Review: Promising Young Women, by Suzanne Scanlon
To verbalize what makes this book so wonderful is to do it an injustice, but I’ll try anyway. There have … More
Heavy Feather Review 