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Category Unknown

  • China Bialos
  • June 21, 2022
“I am a white Englishman, an IC1, and this was never supposed to be my fate.” As with Another Kind of Concrete, Koushik Banerjea’s 2020 full-length debut, Category Unknown bounces…
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Two Novels that Strike Close to Home: On Finding Oneself in a Book

  • Geoffrey Dutton
  • March 29, 2022
The novel Disclaimer uses a “book-within-a-book” literary device and that got my attention as I’m now finishing a novel in which I use the same literary device.
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The Regular
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The Philosophy of Marvin Goodspeed

  • Jim Threlkeld
  • December 21, 2021
The Regular, the new novel by Dave Buckhout, is a philosophical novel, and its main protagonist, Marvin Goodspeed, is a philosopher. That said, what is the philosophy of this modern day southern Cynic? And what, ultimately, is the book’s (and Buckhout’s) take on him?
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The Serpent Papers
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The Serpent Papers

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • October 25, 2021
The Serpent Papers is about the completion of Joseph Bell’s soul. This battle is fought within and without, and the outcome determines whether his soul lives or dies.
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The Great Alone
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The Great Alone

  • Piper Templeton
  • November 23, 2020
Rarely has the setting played as important a role in a novel as Alaska does in The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. It becomes a towering character throughout the novel,…
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Where Reasons End
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Defying Death with Words: On Yiyun Li’s Where Reasons End

  • Richard Cho
  • November 23, 2020
Where would reasons end? The Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño once said in an interview: “I don’t think reason has anything to do with parent-children relationships, not at all. Perhaps from…
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Rico Stays

  • Richard Fluck
  • June 24, 2020
Rico Stays is the final novel in Ed Duncan’s Pigeon-Blood Red trilogy. As he did in the other two books in the series, Pigeon-Blood Red and The Last Straw, Duncan…
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The Devil’s In The Details

  • Albert Hill
  • April 8, 2020
Published by Atmosphere Press in 2019, The Devil’s In The Details is San Diego based writer and artist V.A. Christie’s debut fiction collection available in both paperback and e-book formats. The Devil’s…
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Hip Set
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Hip Set

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • April 7, 2020
Michael Fertik’s novel Hip Set is not only a thrilling detective story but also a literary inquiry into the sacred and the profane—the secular sandwiched between both. When it comes to human behavior, there is nothing pure about it, just as there is nothing pure about what lies on an arc between good and bad or between heaven and hell.
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To The Lighthouse

  • Tejas Yadav
  • September 20, 2019
Ever wondered how a novel would read were it written, without restraint, with the freedom and ferocity of a poem? Read Virginia Woolf's masterpiece.
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