Book Club Member Josh Anastasia on Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch opens with a sad, heart-wrenching story of a stillborn baby.
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Pale King Roundup
A roundup of all things Pale King related:
The Millions has the first lines of The Pale King on their site today:
...moreBook Club Member Josh Anastasia on Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World
I don’t normally go out of my way to write reviews for poetry collections when I can just post a poem and let it speak. The Bigger World by Noelle Kocot is the most recent selection for The Rumpus Poetry Club.
...moreJosh Anastasia Reviews YTTB
Rumpus Book Club member Josh Anastasia reviews the club’s February pick, You Think That’s Bad:
You Think That’s Bad is a collection of short stories from one of my favorite writers, Jim Shepard.
There are eleven stories in the collection, ten of which were previously published in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, and Electric Literature among other.
...morePacazo by Roy Kesey – Review
Josh Anastasia responds to January’s Rumpus Book Club Selection:
Pacazo is a story about a man coming to terms with the murder of his wife and how to move on in the face of tragedy; the stories that we tell ourselves in order to survive.
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