Paper Lantern & Ecstatic Cahoots – Stuart Dybek
For all the stories about love and broken hearts that exist, Dybek does more than add his Chicagoan twist.
Operation Sweet Tooth is about the creation of art, in particular fiction.
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures – Emma Straub
It all happens like a Disneyland ride, one where the reader is buckled into a narrow cart and pushed along on a track past miniature scenes backed by relentlessly tinkling music.
The Land of Decoration – Grace McCleen
Judith’s preoccupations with death are more about her longing for a perfect world, one that she creates in miniature on the floor of her bedroom and calls “the Land of Decoration.”