This slim collection of compact stories left me dumbfounded that we’re given the agency to run our own lives when … More
Tag: Erin Flanagan
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
Almost Famous Women, by Megan Mayhew Bergman
In her second story collection, Almost Famous Women, Megan Mayhew Bergman delves into the lives of real women who skirted … More
Faulty Predictions, by Karin Lin-Greenberg
Karin Lin-Greenberg’s collection, Faulty Predictions, winner of the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, wonderfully captures the moments when … More
The Year of Perfect Happiness, by Becky Adnot-Haynes
In this collection, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, Adnot-Haynes mines the iffy world of early … More
