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Survival Among the Ruinsnew
Jim Crace's The Pesthouse and Cormac McCarthy's The Road both look at a blistered, disintegrating, post-nuclear-war America.
The Texas Observer |
Paul Christensen |
07-16-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
Idealism Fades Away in 'Bottle Rocket Hearts'new
The Toronto grrrl-poet's first novel is brief, charming, and suggestive, but it lacks a shape.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
07-13-2007 |
Fiction
'DMZ' Follow-up Even Darker Than Firstnew
America is split between a hair-trigger authoritarian government and the secessionist Free States Army, with the island of Manhattan the no man's land of the title.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
07-06-2007 |
Fiction
War is Hellnew
Moody's collection of three novellas speaks to war obliquely and directly all at once.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
07-06-2007 |
Fiction
The Finest Wheelchair-basketball Novel Out This Seasonnew
It's also one of the finest Canadian first novels I've read in ages.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
07-06-2007 |
Fiction
A Surprising Mix of Erudition and Popular Culturenew
An accomplished collection of poems that balances humor and sadness with surprising agility and grace.
This Book Opens Younew
To read it is to find yourself complicit in anguished dreams, carved and quartered by the eerie harmonics of a jagged, many-edged voice.
A Keen Eyenew
Close observation in Diana Abu-Jaber's new novel.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
07-05-2007 |
Fiction
New Book Whispers from the Past
We have all felt, at some point in our lives, the drawing; the subtle voice of the past that whispers in our ear and draws us back to a simpler place and time -- this prophetic voice echoes throughout Memory's Keep.
Metro Spirit |
Tillman Russell |
07-05-2007 |
Fiction
'Later, at the Bar' Suffers from a Flat Narrative Arcnew
Barry's first novel is a series of interconnected short stories, each loosely based around regulars at an upstate New York dive.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
07-03-2007 |
Fiction
'The Killing Jar': An Unsparing Account of a Disastrous Childhoodnew
Why is it that we take such joy in reading fiction about the degradation of children?
Baltimore City Paper |
Stephen Peterson |
07-03-2007 |
Fiction
Go Way Out With 'Space Opera'new
After falling on hack times in the 1970s, the space opera makes a comeback.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
07-03-2007 |
Fiction
'Planet Reese': Feel-bad Funnew
Cordelia Strube creates a realm wrought with black comedy, depression and sympathy in her seventh novel.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
07-02-2007 |
Fiction
'Boomsday' Bustnew
Buckley can be really funny, and there are a few laugh-out-loud moments here, but he has a habit of stating the obvious.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
06-29-2007 |
Fiction
From Mary Jane to 'The Plain Janes'new
Highs and lows for women in comics.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
06-28-2007 |
Fiction
