Salt Houses
If you’ve ever built a sand castle in the intertidal zone at the ocean’s edge, you know what happens when the tide comes in: It washes away your castle, leaving not a trace of it except in your memory or a photograph.
Fiction
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Fiction of the imagination to experience and remember.
Last Night In Granada
“The magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with duende.” The narrative in Chris Pellizzarri’s novella, Last Night in Granada, moves along memory corridors that intersect…
Unreasonable Doubts
The cast of characters in Unreasonable Doubts by Reyna Marder Gentin could have stepped out of a Shakespearean play. Consider the lovers Liana Cohen and Jakob Weiss, the counselor Rabbi…
White Dancing Elephants
White Dancing Elephants was a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Women take center stage in Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut short story collection, White Dancing Elephants. As characters, these…
Darktown: A Novel
Darktown by Thomas Mullen does not pull punches. It is a tour de force with no apologies. Thomas Mullen does not bend historical accuracy to create heroes or villains who…
The Last Straw
When Jeffrey Phillips, a poor teenager in Chicago, shoots and kills a man in a carjacking gone sideways, Sandra Yanders, a teen witness from “the other side of the tracks,”…
All Involved: A Novel
All Involved by Ryan Gattis is on writer and reviewer Jason Squire Fluck's list of favorite books. Read his review to find out why.
Whistle
I just finished reading James Jones’ Whistle, the final novel of his World War II trilogy. A couple of months ago, I read the second in the trilogy The Thin…
The End of Your Life Book Club
There is great value in reading a book about books, and The End of Your Life Book Club is no exception. This book is different in one respect, however. It…