Me & Other Writing – Marguerite Duras
Even for the French it is nearly impossible to pin down exactly how Duras does what she does.
The Bodies of Birds – Melanie Rae Thon
It is difficult to describe the lyricism of THE BODIES OF BIRDS in any other way besides liquid metaphors: it swirls, it ripples, it eddies through its narrative waves.
The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary – Molly Reid
Which animal is on the brink of rapture?
Future Tense Fiction – Multiple Authors
FUTURE TENSE FICTION is an exciting and self-conscious celebration of what science fiction has often done best – predict the future
Divide Me By Zero – Lara Vapnyar
Like Barthes’ Mourning Diary, Lara Vapnyar’s poignant, sensitively observed novel can be read as an act of demystification, a study of lost love.
Keeping / the window open – Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop
When I talk to my students in workshop about “your ideal reader,” the example that’s in my mind but I never say out loud is this: me reading anything Rosmarie has written.
The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter – Rosmarie Waldrop
Like the title’s hanky fluttering out of a castle window and settling in some mud, this novel’s narrator flickers about time, space, memory, fact, and conjecture.
The great news is that if you’re not looking for a cardigan in book form, then ALL MY CATS is an extraordinary, heartrending read.
Animal Suicides – Angela Veronica Wong
Here, now, thresholds blur, and we must confront our presence in our absence, our environmental impact across even the most intimate parts of our lives.
The island of Pigs is the locus of multiple abrading – one can almost hear them shifting and grating – layers of meaning.