Tag: Stephen Daly

  • Stephen Daly Reviews Carmella Gray-Cosgrove’s NOWADAYS AND LONELIER

    Stephen Daly Reviews Carmella Gray-Cosgrove’s NOWADAYS AND LONELIER

    Carmella Gray-Cosgrove’s Nowadays and Lonelier lives up to its title—it is a book our times and the recent past—a world of alienation, dysfunction, misery, despair.  Gray-Cosgrove’s finely-honed senses seemingly absorb all she encounters, and when she writes, all of these sensorial observations are put on the page, and we are right where she wants us.…

  • A Review of Aimee Parkison’s Sister Séance by Stephen Daly

    A Review of Aimee Parkison’s Sister Séance by Stephen Daly

    Set in Massachusetts c. 1865, Aimee Parkison’s novel Sister Séance presents the haunted world of a family with many dark secrets, and how those secrets can rise unexpectedly and wreak havoc on the living. We are introduced to a family of four sisters—the Hayden girls—who, each very different from each other, carry the memories of a troubled…