‘At Danceteria and Other Stories’ by Philip Dean Walker
If the “San Junipero” episode of Black Mirror’s Season 3 whetted your appetite for queer 1980s nostalgia, then you’re going to want to make a meal of Philip Dean Walker’s At Danceteria and Other...
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‘No One Can Pronounce My Name’ by Rakesh Satyal
Lambda Literary Award-winner Rakesh Satyal’s second novel, No One Can Pronounce My Name, will probably create a buzz in the national conversation due to the timeliness of a multi-generational tale of...
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‘#gods’ by Matthew Gallaway
Matthew Gallaway’s new novel, #gods (Fiction Advocate), opens on a grisly scene that wouldn’t be out of place in an episode of True Detective or Law & Order—a victim of a ritual killing, body...
View Article‘The Autumn Balloon’ by Kenny Porpora
“Harrowing” is the word that first comes to mind when I try to think of adjectives to describe reading Kenny Porpora’s debut memoir, The Autumn Balloon (Grand Central Publishing). And yet, it’s a...
View Article‘Aquarium’ by David Vann
David Vann’s work has never been what you would call rosy or uplifting—his previous novels and short stories are chock full of graphic violence, family trauma, depression, suicide, and despair. So,...
View Article‘Orient’ by Christopher Bollen
Books are often described as being “cinematic.” But the experience of reading Christopher Bollen’s 600-plus-page novel, Orient (Harper), is more akin to binge-watching an entire season of a serialized...
View Article‘Muse’ by Jonathan Galassi
How does an intrepid young(ish) book reviewer with even scrap of self-preservation left go about panning a book written by the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and live to tell the...
View ArticleJonathan Galassi: On Publishing, Poetry vs. Prose, and Meeting Your Literary...
“I chose to write about publishing because it’s the world I know best, and because I wanted to leave a record of a way of working that really is gone now.” Muse (Knopf) may be Jonathan Galassi’s first...
View Article‘The Brink’ by Austin Bunn
Unless you’ve been living in an underground Y2K bunker for fifteen years, you’ve probably noticed that our culture is currently awash in post-apocalyptic tales. It seems like nearly every TV, video...
View Article‘Black Sheep Boy’ by Martin Pousson
As the title of Martin Pousson’s new book, Black Sheep Boy (Rare Bird Books), suggests, the titular character is placed squarely in the role of outcast and other due to his meekness and effeminacy. But...
View Article‘At Danceteria and Other Stories’ by Philip Dean Walker
If the “San Junipero” episode of Black Mirror’s Season 3 whetted your appetite for queer 1980s nostalgia, then you’re going to want to make a meal of Philip Dean Walker’s At Danceteria and Other...
View Article‘No One Can Pronounce My Name’ by Rakesh Satyal
Lambda Literary Award-winner Rakesh Satyal’s second novel, No One Can Pronounce My Name, will probably create a buzz in the national conversation due to the timeliness of a multi-generational tale of...
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