Richard Yates
A Review of Tao Lin’s novel Richard Yates in which Rick Klaras determines that Lin is perhaps not the be-all, end-all future of literature.
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The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom and Party Girl
A Review of Marc Schuster’s novel The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom & Party Girl in which Lavinia Ludlow mostly describes how awesome a writer he is.
Monster Party
Riley Michael Parker reads Lizzy Acker’s Monster Party and decides that it is “about being a girl, and then a woman, but always a person.”
The Devil All the Time
Riley Michael Parker reviews The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock, and asks, “How do you recommend a book full of murder to someone?”
Stoked Volume I Online Journal
Lavinia Ludlow reviews brand new online journal “Stoked Volume I,” edited by Tyler Gobble and available as of May 2011.
You Can Make Him Like You
For a male, reaching true adulthood has something to do with making the transition from productivity to reproductivity. Find out more in this review of Ben Tanzer’s novel, You Can Make Him Like You.
The Book of Freaks
Jamie Iredell is a master of the absurd; he isolates everything and everyone ever in this faux-encyclopedia, lovingly pins us down, dissects us and encases us in glass. Book in review, by Matt Ferner.
The Paris Poems
Riley Michael Parker reviews The Paris Poems by Suzanne Burns, and insists “her poems about Paris read like letters from an older cousin… out in the world a few years before us.”
The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge
Matthew Simmons is master of impossibly black, brooding imagery, atmosphere and emotion, which reigns supreme in the six passages included in The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge. Book in review, by Matt Ferner.
Pee On Water
Fiction should dabble in real life but be a new language of its own, in this critic’s humble opinion. On that note, Rachel B. Glaser’s collection of short stories delivers a love-punch, to be sure.
America’s Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup
Matt Ferner reviews Max Power’s comprehensive analysis of American nuclear waste issues, America’s Nuclear Wastelands, as part of Eco-Libris’s Green Books 2010 Campaign.
Her So-Called-Life: Preview of EmiTown
Image Comics is publishing a trade paperback of Emi Lenox’s comic-diary “EmiTown.” Available this October (2010), Josh Atlas gives a mini-preview of the book for Smalldoggies.
