by Ellen O'Connell | Feb 2, 2016
Bird by Noy Holland Counterpoint Press. 2015. At their best, books are not just books but experiences that summon us back into a distant memory of ourselves and our parents. Noy Holland has accomplished this with Bird, released in November by Counterpoint Press....
by Ellen O'Connell | Jun 30, 2015
Fissures by Grant Faulkner Press 53. 2015 Flash fiction has taken on such prominence in the recent literary landscape that there are categories within this category. One such category is a drabble, which is, in prosaic terms, a story of 100 words. Grant Faulkner’s...
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...