Book Reviews

May 2012

Miss Fuller, by April Bernard | reviewed by Nancy Freund

The Lola Quartet, by Emily St. John Mandel | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

April 2012

Light Without Heat, by Matthew Kirkpatrick | reviewed by Robert Kloss

Variations of a Brother War, by J.A. Tyler | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

Love Sketches, by David Appleby | reviewed by Susan Jupp

All Her Father's Guns, by James Warner | reviewed by Nancy Freund

The State of Kansas, by Julianna Spallholz | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

March 2012

Crash & Tell, by Lori Baker | reviewed by Jess Stoner

The Fallback Plan, by Leigh Stein | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

We Bury the Landscape, by Kristine Ong Muslim | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am, by Kjersti A. Skomsvold | reviewed by Steve Himmer

February 2012

In the Time of the Blue Ball, by Manuela Draeger | reviewed by Jess Stoner

Echolocation, by Myfanwy Collins | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

Laikonik Express, by Nick Sweeney | reviewed by Susan Jupp

Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories, by Greg Hrbek | reviewed by Ashley Cowger

January 2012

And Also Sharks, by Jessica Westhead | reviewed by Jess Stoner

The Mimic's Own Voice, by Tom Williams | reviewed by Laura McCune Poplin

Omicron Ceti III, by Thomas P. Balázs | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

There is Something Inside, It Wants to Get Out, by Madeline McDonnell | reviewed by Nancy Freund

The Brothers, by Asko Sahlberg | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

December 2011

A Friend in the Police, by John Givens | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

The Book of Happenstance, by Ingrid Winterbach | reviewed by Jess Stoner

Ayiti, by Roxane Gay | reviewed by Thomas Michael Duncan

How to Stop Loving Someone, by Joan Connor | reviewed by Ashley Cowger

November 2011

Sherry & Narcotics, by Nina-Marie Gardner | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Authors | reviewed by Robert Kloss

Amazing Adult Fantasy, by A.D. Jameson | reviewed by Jess Stoner

Bohemian Girl, by Terese Svoboda | reviewed by Steve Himmer

October 2011

Bear Down, Bear North, by Melinda Moustakis | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

The Princess, the King and the Anarchist, by Robert Pagani | reviewed by Susan Jupp

the stinging fly: issue 18 | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur, by Mathias Svalina | reviewed by Jess Stoner

The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney, by Christopher Higgs | reviewed by Robert Kloss

September 2011

So You Know It's Me, by Brian Oliu | reviewed by Laura McCune Poplin

Death Wishing, by Laura Ellen Scott | reviewed by Amye Archer

The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, by Rae Bryant | reviewed by Beth Posniak Fiencke

From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet, by Patrick Michael Finn | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

August 2011

The Vanishing Point of Desire, by Vi Khi Nao | reviewed by Jess Stoner

Katzenjammered, by Norma Kassirer | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

The Girl with Brown Fur, by Stacey Levine | reviewed by Steve Himmer

Domestic Apparition, by Meg Tuite | reviewed by Faye Rapoport DesPres

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, by Christopher Boucher | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

July 2011

Summer recommendations | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

Unfinished, by Lily Hoang | reviewed by Jess Stoner

The New Moscow Philosophy, by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn, by Sean Dixon | reviewed by Nancy Freund

June 2011

Normally Special, by xTx | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

Cowboy Maloney's Electric City, by Michael Bible | reviewed by Jess Stoner

Daddy's, by Lindsay Hunter | reviewed by Chelsea Biondolillo

Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, by Cris Mazza | reviewed by Valerie Nieman

May 2011

How I Lost the War, by Filippo Bologna | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

Fabric: Preludes to the Last American Book, by Richard Froude | reviewed by Jess Stoner

apt, a literary journal | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot, by Robert Levin | reviewed by Nancy Freund

Giraffes in Hiding, by Carol Novack | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

April 2011

Abbott Awaits, by Chris Bachelder | reviewed by Steve Himmer

Seven Years, by Peter Stamm | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

Nahoonkara, by Peter Grandbois | reviewed by Ben Forsberg

Marry or Burn, by Valerie Trueblood | reviewed by John Oliver Perry

March 2011

I Have Touched You, by Gregory Sherl | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

The Sum of His Syndromes, by K. B. Dixon | reviewed by Nancy Freund

Peter Never Came, by Ashley Cowger | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

Impotent, by Matthew Roberson | reviewed by C.J. Opperthauser

February 2011

My Business is to Create, by Eric G. Wilson | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

The Orange Suitcase, by Joseph Riippi | reviewed by Nancy Freund

Blood Lotus #19 | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

How to Escape from a Leper Colony, by Tiphanie Yanique | reviewed by Rebecca Hussey

January 2011

Where We Going, Daddy, by Jean-Louis Fournier | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

Gasoline, by Quim Monzo | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones

The Mothering Coven, by Joanna Ruocco | reviewed by Michelle Bailat-Jones