Grist Book Reviews

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

To Take Note of Where We Are: Adam Clay’s Stranger
Review by Jeremy Michael Reed // February 26, 2016Milkweed Editions, February 2016Paperback, 96pp. $16 Adam Clay’s third book, Stranger, examines the ways we can be estranged

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

The Words Will Keep Us Connected to Each Other: A Review of Grace Bauer’s Nowhere All At Once
Review by Darius Stewart // February 26, 2015 What is it about Grace Bauer that compels us so much to her work? How many lines

Our Lives Happen Between the Memorable: A Review of Dexter L. Booth’s Scratching the Ghost
Review by Darius Stewart // January 13, 2015 Too often I’ve been asked, “what exactly is poetry?” The people who ask this question tend to be intelligent
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