by Will Donnelly | Oct 25, 2013
To summarize the plot of Jacob M. Appel’s second novel, The Biology of Luck, is difficult, in large part because while there is the arc of a story within it, that arc is danced around and played upon by such a wild menagerie of characters and events that it’s...
by Marcus Pactor | Oct 17, 2013
Gabriel Blackwell is emerging as one of our great formal innovators. What Gary Lutz has been doing at the level of sentences and words, Blackwell is doing at the level of stories, essays, and novels. In his first novel, Shadow Man, he offered a verbal collage...
by Kay Cosgrove | Oct 9, 2013
Part poetry, part prose, Shira Dentz’s latest collection breaks apart expectations of form and language, resisting category at every turn. On the surface, door of thin skins revolves around one woman’s relationship with her psychotherapist, Dr. Abe. But such a...
by Tara Menon | Oct 1, 2013
Readers of Indira Ganesan’s latest novel, As Sweet as Honey, will find themselves in Pi, “the tiniest crescent-shaped bindi above the eyebrows to Sri Lanka’s tear, a small spit of an island floating in the Bay of Bengal, resembling Madras when Madras was Madras...
by Gina Keicher | Sep 22, 2013
The moon is cyclical in nature and Kit Frick has brought it to a new phase with Echo, Echo, Light. The winner of the 2nd Annual Slope Editions Chapbook Prize, Echo, Echo, Light is a series of twenty poems that interrogate language, exploration, space, and the...
by Caitlin Maling | Sep 15, 2013
I won’t mention the urn made of wood, the wooden urn. I won’t mention what this might entail. I won’t mention the noise escaping from the urn. The poems throughout Revolver in the Hive are the “noise / escaping from the urn.” At the center of...
