Christian TeBordo’s Ghost Engine has everything I always want from a short story collection. These pieces are darkly humorous, formally … More
Tag: Marcus Pactor
LITTLE HOLLYWOOD, a collection of scripts and paper doll actors by Jinnwoo, reviewed by Marcus Pactor
Little Hollywood: A Collection of Scripts & Paper Doll Actors, by Jinnwoo. Minneapolis, Minnesota: 11:11 Press, April 2020. 168 pages. … More
ESSAYS ONE, the first nonfiction essay collection by fiction writer and translator Lydia Davis, reviewed by Marcus Pactor
Essays One, by Lydia Davis. New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2019. 528 pages. $30.00, hardcover. Lydia … More
Marcus Pactor on Brandi Homan’s New Novel BURN FORTUNE
Burn Fortune, by Brandi Homan. Clash Books, May 2019. 214 pages. $15.95, paper. Holden Caulfield still irritates me, though I … More
“More Fish Than Man,” a short story by Marcus Pactor
My cousin and I once fished under an interstate where a bent leg of swamp lay exposed and easy to … More
Fiction by Marcus Pactor: “Cake”
—after Blake Butler The cake reminded me of the twins’ wet sludge food. I could never shovel it well … More