IMAGINARY MUSEUMS by Nicolette Polek, a very real story collection from Soft Skull Press, reviewed by Erin Flanagan

This slim collection of compact stories left me dumbfounded that we’re given the agency to run our own lives when … More

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

Melissa Fraterrigo’s first novel in stories, Glory Days, captures the desperation and beauty of living in the hardscrabble Midwest. Populated … More

Sara Majka’s 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

Amy Gustine’s 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, by Amina Gautier

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

Bryn Chancellor’s collection When Are You Coming Home? won the 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her stories have appeared in … More

BLACKOUT, by Sarah Hepola

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, by Charles Baxter

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, by Kelly Link

Kelly Link’s fiction follows the same kind of logic that lets you coast through a dream where your partner is … More