by Beth Aplin | May 10, 2015
Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted and Afraid to Die by Amy Fusselman Houghton Mifflin. 2015. Amy Fusselman is a writer and editor, a former figure skater, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and a...
by Ellen O'Connell | May 1, 2015
What Comes Next and How to Like It, a memoir by Abigail Thomas Simon & Schuster. 2015. Abigail Thomas’s new memoir, What Comes Next and How to Like It, tracks the miracle of minutiae as though it were the steady beat of her own heart: the background thump...
by Sarah Brown | Apr 23, 2015
After the fox, see the chase. Feel the theatre. A grasp at something with a velvet waist. Tally-ho: the eternal cry of Brit foxhunters, shouted upon sight of prey. After the Fox introduces itself with the notion of chase, and carries its reader into a long run of...
by Sarah Brown | Apr 7, 2015
Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter. Farrar, Straus Giroux. 2014. 240 pages. Ugly Girls opens with two wanna-be thug-girls cruising around in a stolen red Mazda, blasting gangster rap. This is the perfect scene to set the tone of a sweaty, dirty, linguistic joyride —...
by Marcus Pactor | Mar 31, 2015
Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours by Luke B. Goebel Fiction Collective Two. 2014. 184 pages. My first couple years of college, I studied with the late Harry Crews. I read all his books and took his word as the gospel on fiction. When he was writing...
by Melissa | Mar 20, 2015
The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson Tin House Books, 2014. 228 pp. “Even what the mind forgets, the body remembers.” –Lacy Johnson As Lacy Johnson writes in the notes following her memoir The Other Side, the word memory takes its root from origins one might...
