by Will Donnelly | Feb 14, 2013
It’s hard to read Marcus Pactor’s Vs. Death Noises without thinking of J.G. Ballard. The crime-scene labeled portrayal of character in “The Archived Steve,” the incantation-based narrative in “Spell Compendium,” the number-tagged dialogue in “Loss? Found?” and...
by Lauren Hilger | Feb 8, 2013
I’ll be your plumber and your guide through pipelines of intimacy revived. Now let’s play a curative game. I promise I won’t make you dance to the memories of your abuse. (“Dark Remedies”) Dark Square, Peter Marcus’s first collection, surveys the emotional terrain of...
by Rachel Bara | Feb 2, 2013
GMR’s “Slow Burn” review series looks back at titles that continue to smolder, still, beneath the embers of last year or even the year before. And here in the frozen trough of winter, we’ve never needed those embers more. In that spirit, Rachel...
by Kay Cosgrove | Jan 27, 2013
American Rhapsody by Carole Stone is a boozy, jazz-age collection of elegies for the poet’s deceased parents, as well as for America in the days of yore. Told in rhythmic, sometimes drunken party language, and woven around the physical place of New Jersey, the poems...
by Joseph Scapellato | Jan 21, 2013
GMR’s “Slow Burn” review series looks back at titles that continue to smolder, still, beneath the embers of last year or even the year before, or that simply burn brighter with time. –The Editors Life Is with People by Atticus Lish is a...
by Will Donnelly | Jan 14, 2013
Virtually every story in Andrew Malan Milward’s Juniper Prize-winning collection, The Agriculture Hall of Fame, involves a disappearance. In “Skywriting,” “John,” and “Silver Creek, 1969,” that disappearance is of people. In “The Antichrist Chronicles,” an entire lake...
