There is much to be admired and enjoyed in Perry Brass’s latest novel but it’s slightly buried behind a misleading...
Provocative and unapologetic, the stories here offer a glimpse into the conflicted psyches of men in transition alongside moments of rare insight. There are shades of Holleran and Kramer here with prose by turns bombastic and elegiac. Read More
The cover art for Damian Serbu’s novel The Vampire’s Quest [ Book II in The Vampire’s Angel series] depicts a...
From the outset this is a beautifully-written and well-crafted book. DeSimone is clearly a writer who considers each sentence, and...
David Pratt offers an assortment of both experimental and conventional narratives in his new fourteen-story collection, My Movie (Chelsea Station...
I think it was Kurt Vonnegut who said that writing a novel was like making popcorn: the characters were the...
On its surface, the story of Coral Glynn appears simple: the titular nurse Coral arrives at Hart House to care for an elderly woman dying of cancer, and her son, Major Clement Hart, takes a shine to her. In less deft hands, this material would be ripe for all sorts of weeping and rending of garments, but Cameron works with a deft hand, never succumbing to histrionics. Read More
It is difficult to casually categorise Manuel Muñoz's first novel. Mystery? Noir thriller? Romance? Literary fiction? Historical fiction? Meta-fiction? The answer, as it turns out, is all of the above. Read More
Justin Chin stitches together a collection of stories in 98 Wounds that are visceral, unsettling, overwhelming, disturbing, poetic, beautiful, loving, and real. Be prepared to be emotionally and psychologically jarred; to be wounded and healed. Read More
Techno, as any DJ will tell you, is a circular form of music. Its structure is built from repeating patterns called loops which the enterprising DJ can stitch into a long, continuous track. In this way, Brane Mozetič’s Lost Story resembles a techno track. Written in the form of a diary, Lost Story follows a young gay Slovenian, Bojan, who’s stuck in a loop of drugs, clubs, sex. Read More
