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The Other Woman
ERIN BLUE BURKE
“But she knows it is impossible to escape completely, for everyone who sees her plays a hypothetical interrogation in their heads, speculates about her feelings, her mental well-being, why it is exactly that she is spending so many hours swimming.”
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RealityCheck
JAKE SLOVIS
“I didn’t protest, which I think bothered her—the point of all this was to argue and see if that brought about anything new. But sitting beside her it just seemed insincere to pick a petty fight face-to-face. So I reached for the laptop and started our virtual lives together.”
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Syncopated Sensibility: Review of Sevastopol
CELIA LEGBAND HAWLEY
“Emphasis is created by avoiding the obvious, by downplaying the dramatic, and by calling out the mundane and the everyday with apt and telling description. The asymmetrical balance Fraia thus achieves is a cornerstone of the storytelling in this slight but mighty novel.”
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Bewilderness: A Review
BEE GRAY-ARMY
“Tucker pulls from a deep well of emotions which readers of all types might relate to. The messaging is consistent throughout the novel: being an addict does not mean you are less worthy; all human life deserves to be valued. This message is a step in a healing direction—and one that I believe might inspire thoughtful discussions about addiction between readers of the book.”
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Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action: A Review
KYLAN RICE
“Dunn’s book is a patient primer on how to grow things in thin soil, the soil of human thinness. It shows us how to live and make life possible in a slurry of our making.”
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A Long Time to Be Gone: A Review
KYLAN RICE
“It’s bitter that there’s little left, a feeling that can sometimes threaten to consume us—but McFee shows how to resist consumption, how to find some succulence in what is unconsumed, the flesh that forms the core. This is the beauty of his work…
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Sleeping as Fast as I Can: A Review
KYLAN RICE
“The triumph of Michelson’s collection is that it dramatizes the conflict between these two properties of form—form as processural resolution and form as obsessive recursion. Throughout, the poet wrestles between the sanity of love and the madness of rage—an ambivalence that makes Sleeping as Fast as I Can a deeply important, deeply American book.”
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Indigo: A Review
ELLIE RAMBO
“Powell is at his nonfiction best when writing about places, and not for the reasons many travel writers are praised. It’s not so much his ability to evoke a place in vivid detail that is notable, although he demonstrates this ability in ‘New Orleans.’ Instead, it’s the way the places he writes about seem haunted by other places, lost opportunities, and alternative choices the author might make.”
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The Other Woman
ERIN BLUE BURKE
“But she knows it is impossible to escape completely, for everyone who sees her plays a hypothetical interrogation in their heads, speculates about her feelings, her mental well-being, why it is exactly that she is spending so many hours swimming.”
READ MOREFICTION
RealityCheck
JAKE SLOVIS
“I didn’t protest, which I think bothered her—the point of all this was to argue and see if that brought about anything new. But sitting beside her it just seemed insincere to pick a petty fight face-to-face. So I reached for the laptop and started our virtual lives together.”
READ MOREREVIEWS
Syncopated Sensibility: Review of Sevastopol
CELIA LEGBAND HAWLEY
“Emphasis is created by avoiding the obvious, by downplaying the dramatic, and by calling out the mundane and the everyday with apt and telling description. The asymmetrical balance Fraia thus achieves is a cornerstone of the storytelling in this slight but mighty novel.”
READ MOREREVIEWS
Bewilderness: A Review
BEE GRAY-ARMY
“Tucker pulls from a deep well of emotions which readers of all types might relate to. The messaging is consistent throughout the novel: being an addict does not mean you are less worthy; all human life deserves to be valued. This message is a step in a healing direction—and one that I believe might inspire thoughtful discussions about addiction between readers of the book.”
READ MOREREVIEWS
Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action: A Review
KYLAN RICE
“Dunn’s book is a patient primer on how to grow things in thin soil, the soil of human thinness. It shows us how to live and make life possible in a slurry of our making.”
READ MOREREVIEWS
A Long Time to Be Gone: A Review
KYLAN RICE
“It’s bitter that there’s little left, a feeling that can sometimes threaten to consume us—but McFee shows how to resist consumption, how to find some succulence in what is unconsumed, the flesh that forms the core. This is the beauty of his work…
READ MOREREVIEWS
Sleeping as Fast as I Can: A Review
KYLAN RICE
“The triumph of Michelson’s collection is that it dramatizes the conflict between these two properties of form—form as processural resolution and form as obsessive recursion. Throughout, the poet wrestles between the sanity of love and the madness of rage—an ambivalence that makes Sleeping as Fast as I Can a deeply important, deeply American book.”
READ MOREREVIEWS
Indigo: A Review
ELLIE RAMBO
“Powell is at his nonfiction best when writing about places, and not for the reasons many travel writers are praised. It’s not so much his ability to evoke a place in vivid detail that is notable, although he demonstrates this ability in ‘New Orleans.’ Instead, it’s the way the places he writes about seem haunted by other places, lost opportunities, and alternative choices the author might make.”
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