They Dragged Them Through the Streets – Hilary Plum
The message these mourners and friends struggled so desperately to express echoes emptily. It’s almost as if their pain had never been.
Very Recent History – Choire Sicha
Sicha makes us remember those intense moments and the tangles of our lives, both emotional and financial, which is how Very Recent History gets under our skins.
Whispering Bodies – Jesse Michaels
His undoing is also that of punk rock
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.
Awake to both the subtly human and bitterly hysterical faces of contemporary life
Under This Terrible Sun – Carlos Busqued
Stoner culture and noir, when both are at their best, are experiments in mood and atmospherics.
The Currency of Paper – Alex Kovacs
The Currency of Paper is certainly a novel of ideas, albeit in a more literal sense.
Whether the book does succeed in being comforting or in making its readers happy — depends perhaps upon the reader’s tolerance for Schadenfreude
Lotería – Mario Alberto Zambrano
Fiction is never real, but good fiction is always true.
In Times of Facing Light – Eugen Ruge
Like an overcrowded social gathering where one is forced to meet many people on a superficial level, the book offers little insight into the motivations, incentives, and desires of its characters.