It’s funny. When I scheduled with Heavy Feather last month for this to be my first review of 2023, I … More
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Cinema, a novel by Samuel Kaye, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald
Long before I started writing book reviews, I had a steady (unpaid) gig writing movie reviews (and still contribute occasional, … More
The Autodidacts, a novel by Thomas Kendall, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald
There is a passage in what I have come to think of as, gun to my head, my all-time favorite … More
“Risking Chaos”: Marcus Pactor Chats with David Leo Rice, Author of The New House
David Leo Rice writes singularly weird fiction about the experiences of artists and drifters wandering hallucinatory landscapes. His latest novel, … More
David Leo Rice’s New Novel The New House, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald
My wife and I still talk often about the term “art monster”—first coined in Jenny Offill’s 2014 novel Dept. of … More
“Forsaken”: Gay Degani Interviews Jayne Martin, author of the memoir THE DADDY CHRONICLES
A stick of dynamite is about the size of a banana. It doesn’t necessarily look dangerous, but it carries with … More
The Book of the Last Word, a novel by Jesi Bender, reviewed by Patrick Parks
In the prologue to Jesi Bender’s intense and beautifully crafted first novel, The Book of the Last Word, we hear … More
“Master of the Concise”: Jesi Buell Reviews J. Bradley’s flash fiction collection Neil and Other Stories
Neil and Other Stories is a prepossessing examination of a parent’s influence on the internal life of their child. At … More