‘Mere Mortals’ by Erastes Damian Serbu FictionReviews October 31, 2011 2 min readDespite having heard of Erastes, I had never read one of her novels before this one. That will change. If...
‘Captain Harding’s Six-Day War’ by Elliott Mackle Alan Chin FictionReviewsRomance October 5, 2011 3 min readIn 1967, Captain Harding is working his way up the promotion ladder within the U.S. Air Force. He’s a go-getter...
‘Zipper Mouth’ by Laurie Weeks Courtney Gillette FictionReviews October 3, 2011 4 min readMomentum has a language, and in her long awaited debut novel Zipper Mouth (Feminist Press), Laurie Weeks speaks it fluidly....
‘Shaken and Stirred’ by Joan Opyr Kristin Rawls FictionReviews August 29, 2011 2 min readJoan Opyr’s novel, Shaken and Stirred (Bywater Books), has a familiar premise: A young woman with a dysfunctional and sometimes...
‘For Me and My Gal’ by Robbi McCoy Pamela Bigelow ReviewsRomance July 25, 2011 2 min readShelby Pratt was fired from her waitressing job at an upscale restaurant because a diner took umbrage with the service...
‘The VIPs’ by Scott Poulson-Bryant Curt Weber FictionReviews July 12, 2011 1 min readThe VIPs (Broadway Books/Random House), Scott Poulson-Bryant’s first novel, is no let-down. The author must have spent many a night...
‘The Empress Sword’ by Paulette Jaxton JM Frey ReviewsSpeculative FictionYoung Adult June 15, 2011 2 min readWith a kingdom to save and a dragon to slay, not to mention the loss of a dear friend and...
Douglas A. Martin: Going Back Zachary Pace Interviews June 30, 2010 5 min readDouglas A. Martin opens Once You Go Back (Seven Stories Press, 2009) with an unusual instruction. “Pretend you are my...
The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 Jameson Fitzpatrick News June 8, 2010 1 min readThe New Yorker’s Summer Fiction issue was released Monday, featuring this year’s 20 Under 40–“twenty young writers who capture the...
