If a governess frolics and there is no elderly gentleman to witness it . . . ?
A Good Day for Seppuku – Kate Braverman
Experimental boomer fiction that may not have lost its bile, but has lost its bite.
Performative writing promises no buttoned-up endings, no achievement of perfection. It refutes the notion of a progression, of a moving forward, the reaching of a completed end-point.
Theis lives in the stage directions, in the unspoken.
Beyond the Blurb – Daniel Green
The divide between the top capos of Big 5 publishing and the assistants that execute their bidding is more vast and unscalable than ever before.
Amid Midwestern megachurches and half-built subdivisions, my obsession with Bowie was gritted into a secret pearl.
Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail – Kelly Luce
I would happily suggest that Luce contributes as much to the contemporary renaissance of the short story in her first work as Russell, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders have with their recent masterpieces.
I’d characterize Mira Corpora as a seduction. It heightens the pulse and warps the mind with the allure and cliffhangers of a sexy action flick.
Linda Perdido is a story about wanderers. Not wanderlusts, and certainly not “lost,” but those who wander for the sake of it.
Down the Rabbit Hole – Juan Pablo Villalobos
Like its pintsize narrator, this novel divulges an unnerving inner darkness beyond its dainty exterior.