Text Colliding with Text: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Much of the novel questions what constitutes a life: If it’s reduced or subverted or is itself a simulation, is it still worth living?
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Josh English
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Josh English's work has appeared in Hobart, The Rumpus, and a few other places. His short story "The Human Animal" won the 2021 Ember Chasm Review Fiction Prize and his short story collection was a finalist for the Iron Horse Prize. He has an MFA from the University of Alabama and lives in Louisville, Kentucky where he is a Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Louisville. Follow him on Twitter @PsychobillyBook.
A Gentle Touch: Annie Hartnett’s Unlikely Animals
What’s special about Hartnett’s chorus of the dead, though, is that they stress the tension between overlapping realities.
Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam
But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.