Review: ‘Jillian’ by Halle Butler
Show me what you hate and I might show you that what you're pointing to is a mirror. "Jillian," Halle Butler's short and scathing debut novel, is not a "message"...
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Review: ‘Honeydew’ by Edith Pearlman
What does it mean to be a contemporary master of the short story? To be a writer's writer? Edith Pearlman is described as both, often and rightfully. On her website,...
Review: ‘The Happiest People in the World’ by Brock Clarke
Google the title of Brock Clarke's fourth novel, "The Happiest People in the World," and you end up with all kinds of lists, surveys and self-help tips: the country on...
The outsized influence of Margaret Anderson’s Little Review
To open, an analogy: Margaret Anderson and The Little Review are to independent publishing what Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground are to music. In a 1982 interview with Musician...
A case for reading political fiction
In an understandably cynical mood about the fractured state of American government, one might be inclined to wonder: When so much of politics and what politicians say is fiction to...
Review: ‘The Book of Scented Things’ edited by Jehanne Dubrow and Lindsay Lusby
Perfume and poetry have a lot more in common than their shared first letter. Both are art forms that more people would probably come to love if they were to...
Review: ‘Where To?’ by Dmitry Samarov
All cabdrivers get dispatched, but most cabdrivers don't send dispatches. Artist, writer and former taxi driver Dmitry Samarov does, though, and has for years: on his blog and through Twitter...