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Kenny Squires
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Fringe Florida by Lynn Waddell
Kenny Squires reviews Lynn Waddell’s FRINGE FLORIDA today in The Rumpus Book Review.
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“Stories We Tell Ourselves,” by Michelle Herman
Do your dreams stay with you? How about the one about your dead Aunt Ethel, or that one where you’re pushed off a skyscraper by laughing midget rodeo clowns? What do dreams mean, anyway? Michelle Herman’s essay, “Dream Life,” from…
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TSFN
With an experiment in form, Mark Leyner’s latest novel The Sugar Frosted Nutsack turns the exploits of a nobody into the stuff of whacked-out folklore.
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The Middle
In Dagoberto Gilb’s new collection of short stories, Before the End, After the Beginning, we see people in transitional phases―neither flying nor drowing, but floating.
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The Heart of Nothing Much That Mattered
Alan Heathcock’s stories are linked by the town of Krafton—where missing teenagers hang from trees and all anyone wants to do is get out.
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Player One
The latest novel from Douglas Coupland critiques contemporary culture, but lacks fresh perspectives.
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Bound
In Antonya Nelson’s fourth novel, characters are tied to one another by love, by chance, by obligation—and by fear.
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Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving
“Amnesia had long streaming hair bleached to a dazzling white and was always clad in black. Flying through the air she seemed like a Valkyrie warrior plunging down from Valhalla.”
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No Lights, Nobody Home
Alex Taylor’s collection of stories set in Kentucky channels Southern greats like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.
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Forgetting English
This brief collection of stories, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, takes readers around the world to examine familiar relationships without geographical boundaries.
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One of These Things is Not Like the Others
Stephanie Johnson’s microfiction creates rich subtext in few words, making each story complicated and true, and each character alive and familiar.
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John Dies at the End
An expanded on-line novel aimed at the teenage-slacker demo offers one too many penis jokes and pop-culture shout outs.