This slim collection of compact stories left me dumbfounded that we’re given the agency to run our own lives when … More
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Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, a debut novel by Ron A. Austin, reviewed by Erin Flanagan
Avery Colt is a kid who could use a break. In addition to the everyday struggles of adolescence, he’s caught … More
Erin Flanagan Reviews Jamel Brinkley’s Debut Story Collection, A Lucky Man
Absent fathers abound in this debut collection of stories, leaving behind their complicated legacies of race and love. As Eric … More
“Momentum of Connections”: Erin Flanagan Interviews Augustus Rose, Author of The Readymade Thief
Augustus Rose’s first novel, The Readymade Thief, is a fervent mix of art, deceit, puzzles, subterfuge, coincidence, and meaning, all … More
“Genuine and True”: An Interview with Melissa Fraterrigo, Author of Glory Days, by Erin Flanagan
Melissa Fraterrigo’s first novel in stories, Glory Days, captures the desperation and beauty of living in the hardscrabble Midwest. Populated … More
Review: Erin Flanagan on Sara Majka’s Story Collection Cities I’ve Never Lived In
From the very start of Cities I’ve Never Lived In, Majka plunks the reader into a world where opposites coexist: … More
Review: Erin Flanagan on Amy Gustine’s Story Collection You Should Pity Us Instead
Amy Gustine’s first collection of stories demonstrates a remarkable range, not only in situation and character, but also in the … More
The Loss of All Lost Things, short stories by Amina Gautier, reviewed by Erin Flanagan
Winner of the Elixir Press 2014 Fiction Award, Gautier’s collection The Loss of all Lost Things centers, not surprisingly, around … More
“Stealing Breath”: An Interview with Bryn Chancellor by Erin Flanagan
Bryn Chancellor’s collection When Are You Coming Home? won the 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her stories have appeared in … More
Blackout, nonfiction by Sarah Hepola, reviewed by Erin Flanagan
Blackout follows Sarah Hepola’s life as a drinker, starting with sips in grade school and progressing through her first drunk … More
There’s Something I Want You to Do, stories by Charles Baxter, reviewed by Erin Flanagan
The epigraph from Primo Levi’s The Reawakening sets the stage for Baxter’s latest collection: “Everybody’s moral universe, suitably interpreted, comes … More
Get in Trouble, stories by Kelly Link, reviewed by Erin Flanagan
Kelly Link’s fiction follows the same kind of logic that lets you coast through a dream where your partner is … More