Review: Nick Sweeney on Found Audio by N.J. Campbell

N.J. Campbell’s Found Audio is the new Pandora’s Box of weird contemporary fiction. It forces the reader to grapple the … More

Review: Nick Sweeney on The History of the Future by Edward McPherson

I made the mistake of reading The History of the Future before I went to bed. It was a mistake … More

Good writers conjure characters from the dust and ink. Great writers can resurrect them. Melanie Finn can certainly drag a … More

Joseph Scapellato’s collection is a lot of things: risky, honest, and romantic. Big Lonesome will turn your idea of the … More

This is not a “Civil Rights Movement” novel. This is a novel in which the Civil Rights Movement occurs around … More

All writers want to create new worlds. Good writers want to explore new worlds. Great writers want to expose new … More

We owe Philip K. Dick a lot. With every sentence he wrote, Dick helped many writers and readers break through … More

Writers should excel to be more than simple transcribers of thought and action; they should be the stethoscope of every … More

Fiction shows the humanity of our own nature. It’s a reflection of what is and what could be. With Animal, … More

The blend between novels and other mediums is not new. Prose poems, poetic novels, fictional histories … there is constant … More

Translations are often beautiful and alluring for myriad reasons. They offer a glimpse of a different language and structure, they are … More

Short story collections, especially those containing a multitude of stories, are difficult to gauge. How much constitutes a good or … More

Subtly vicious and slowly heartbreaking, Coyote by Colin Winnette is a splinter that strikes a major nerve making your whole … More

There is something to be said about authors who manage to publish their first writings. There are always tales of … More