Strange Science Fantasy – Scott Morse, Paul Pope
“It stands on the shoulders of a comic book past often talked about but rarely incorporated into modern graphic storytelling.”
Milo Burke is a misanthrope, a hater’s hater, and America, with its soggy yellow eyes and faded dream, has nothing left to offer him.
The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman
“With rampant factual inaccuracies, an ever-shrinking readership, and an office best known for its dirty carpeting, most of the staff is beginning to wonder why the paper is even in existence.”
“Ian McEwan’s novels are usually refreshingly humane. Solar is not.”
The Gin Closet – Leslie Jamison
“Stella, a twenty-something in the City, frustrated with the repeated self-injury of her vapid community, steps out of her own life and tries to enact something realer.”
“A vivid battle takes place between Tim and his Id, and the dialogue between the two becomes darkly humorous as Tim struggles to discern his body from his mind from his soul.”
The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer
“The Invisible Bridge is insistent in its attention to the survival of humanity in dark times, while admitting that even high romance is all a matter of brutal chance.”
Lamb Bright Saviors – Robert Vivian
“Perhaps by making the preacher contain no greater wisdom, Vivian has damned his novel to simply being a poetic stab at men looking for god and finding Him everywhere.”
“It is a strange thing to find a book with no sense of humor, and stranger still to realize just how important and comforting even trace elements of a comic sensibility can be.”