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Sun drenched skin, browned with age and looking like the old wrinkled leather that it was, stretched over hands that were more tendons and prideful obstinance than strength. Jasper turned the pan in a smooth, easy motion that he had taught himself over the last forty years panning for gold. He didn’t really care if…
In the opening scene of The Passenger Seat, Vijay Khurana’s elegant debut novel, two teenagers teeter, nearly naked, on the rail of a steel truss bridge. Each boy peers surreptitiously at the other. Just as the thickening eroticism threatens to break the surface of their friendship, they plunge into the narrow river. On splashdown one…
At least the title of my second novel, What Do You Want from Me? hasn’t changed since I started working on it more than eight years ago. Pretty much everything else has, though.
Short stories can help us see the world in new ways or they can reflect the world in which we find ourselves living. The stories in Alternative Facts, the extraordinary collection by Emily Greenberg, do both. In doing so, they take risks which pay off—at least for readers who appreciate adventurous fiction. The stories are…
An elaborate and breathtaking historical novel, Peter Geye’s A Lesser Light unfolds over eight months in and around the Gininwabiko Lighthouse, located on the shore of Lake Superior, in 1910. Here Willa eagerly waits to catch a glimpse of Halley’s Comet while her husband, Theodulf, fears its passing will rain down poison on the earth.…
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Beth Kephart writes about Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story from Tursulowe Press. + Among My Souvenirs:On Researching Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News The box arrived on Thanksgiving Day…
Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft is a sprawling novel, immense in scope despite its limited setting on the Texas-Mexico border, in the towns of Brownsville (Brunveille) and Matamoros (Matasanchez). Boullosa sometimes gives the absurd impression that this is a parsimonious narrative. In fact the breadth of life on offer here is immense. The novel…