Fiction Reviews
Stars and Bright Signs: Tawnysha Greene’s A House Made of Stars
Review by Justin LaFreniere // February 27, 2017Burlesque Press, 2015Paperback, 196 pp. $16.95 Tawnysha Greene’s A House Made of Stars opens with danger disguised as play: the
Quinn Dalton’s Midnight Bowling
Review by Courtney Mullis // December 5, 2016Carolina Wren Press, March 2016Paperback, 263pp. $17.95 Quinn Dalton’s second novel Midnight Bowling is more than just a teenage love
Rosa Liksom’s Compartment No. 6
Review by Torrie Jay White // October 24, 2016Graywolf Press, August 2016Paperback, 192 pp., $16 Compartment No. 6 is a tense, terse, dense novel. In less
Reconstructing the End: Jeff Wood’s The Glacier
Review by Joe Seale // August 1, 2016Two Dollar Radio, Oct. 2015Paperback, 160 pp., $15.95 The early pages of Jeff Wood’s cinematic novel The Glacier depict a
Articulate Bodies and Missed Connections: May-Lan Tan’s Things to Make and Break
Review by Evan Dardano // October 7, 2015CB editions, Feb 2014Paperback. 216pp. £8.99 Things to Make and Break, May-Lan Tan’s debut story collection, is fascinated
“She grimaces, a better way of speaking”: Rachel Levy’s A Book So Red
Review by Jaclyn Watterson // September 16, 2015Caketrain Press, June 2015Paperback. 140pp. $9 The lightning-quick flash fictions that make up Rachel Levy’s A Book So Red read
GRIST FICTION REVIEWS
How to Survive the Rest of Your Life: Vanessa Blakeslee’s Perfect Conditions
Review by Samantha Edmonds // November 15, 2018 Several weeks after finishing Vanessa Blakeslee’s Perfect Conditions (Curbside Splendor, 2018), I still feel these stories overflowing in my
The Death of Empathy: Anna Moschovakis’ Eleanor or the Rejection of the Progress of Love
Review by Amy Lee Lillard // September 9, 2018Coffee House Press, August 2018Paperback, 224 pp. $16.95 Something has happened to Eleanor, the thirty-nine-year-old teacher and
Avuncularly Pynchonian: Joe Ponepinto’s Mr. Neutron
Review by David A. Southard // March 20, 20187.13 Books, March 2018Paperback, 300pp., $15.99 You have heard it before: you are the lead in the
Exquisite Desolation: Emily Fridlund’s Catapult
Review by Sarah Appleton // January 18, 2018Sarabande Books, 2017ISBN: 978-1946448057240 pp. / $15.95 Emily Fridlund has had an eventful year: her novel The History of
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