Imagine The Empty House as a passport, and each story as a fresh stamp. But this collection allows the reader … More
Tag: Louise Henrich
We Were Flying to Chicago, by Kevin Clouther
We Were Flying to Chicago explores the weariness of life when you don’t become who you expected to be, and … More
Housebound, by Elizabeth Gentry
Elizabeth Gentry’s Housebound crystallizes a moment of irrevocable change within a family. When Housebound opens, Maggie, the eldest daughter in … More
Review: ANIMAL collection, by Colin Winnette
Instead of speaking about the trunk of an elephant or the way an elephant moves, Colin Winnette begins his story … More
Review: Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell
I think it would be a good idea, while reading Karen Russell’s newest collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, to … 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
Review: Beside the Sea, by Véronique Olmi (Translated by Adriana Hunter)
When I fall in love with characters, I’ll finish the book and wish that they would stick around, and oftentimes, … More
Review: This Isn’t Who We Are, by Barry Graham
“And so it begins, like this, waiting too long for a lazy train out of West Toledo.” Forget that this … More
