Event Factory is proof that as Renee Gladman has something new to offer, the perspective of invented linguistics encountered as a traveler. …more
Gary Lutz’s new collection, divorcer, tells seven stories of divorce that will captivate every reader―single, married or divorced. …more
In poet Ben Lerner’s debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, we follow expat Adam Gordon as he travels Spain managing the boundaries between art and life. …more
Built on a walk through a privately-owned museum, a four-chambered version of art, Color Plates is not an easily defnable book. …more
“Boats are lost at sea. Drowning is different. Water fills the lungs making life at first difficult, then impossible, to sustain.” …more
“As soon as the wolf forced himself inside her, she sprung her trap, showing him that she too knew what it meant to consume someone whole.” …more
The last great book I read was the very recent Scary, No Scary by Zachary Schomburg, released from Black Ocean Press in August. I was a big fan of the previous collection from Schomburg, The Man Suit, and was hoping that Scary, No Scary would be equivalent. It is not. Scary, No Scary is far better, much sharper and more drawn from images, shaking through the reader in its short and livid sentences. …more