Imported Comedy
Playwright Alan Bennett set his sights on fiction in his new comedic collection, Smut.
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Adam Gallari
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Adam Gallari is an American ex-pat pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Exeter. He received an MFA from the University of California, Riverside, and his debut collection of short stories, We Are Never as Beautiful as We Are Now is forthcoming in spring, 2010.
A Welcome Invitation
In Francois Emmanuel’s new collection Invitation to a Voyage, the prose is elegant and refined, the subject matter heady yet accessible, and the execution nearly flawless.
The Tiki King
“Zahlah quit the bed and saw her dark reflection in the full-length mirror. An American woman. That’s what she saw. Liberated and humiliated.”
The House on Salt Hay Road
With a hurricane and a world war on the horizon, Carin Clevidence’s debut novel examines a Long Island family’s attempts to stave off disintegration.
The Country Where No One Ever Dies
The Albanian, in Ornela Vorpsi’s comic novel, is someone prone to megalomania, and who has one obsession “dearer to them than death… Fornication.”