fiction
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Review of 2666 (2666 #1-5) by Roberto Bolaño
Read on a cruise ship. And I remember very little else about the cruise itself. This was eight years ago, but the book stands out in my mind, murky but stamped among the convolutions of my hippocampus. This book reaffirmed why I love reading. It is a book of literary…
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Review of The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
Swept away by the alternately sensuous and utilitarian prose, the incredible diversity of emotions I encountered while reading this book defied strict categorization and boggled my mind. It felt like my brain had tipped sideways and any trite notions of innocence I might have held in reserve in the untouched…
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Review of Unbabbling by REYoung
This Dalkey Archive discovery is deceptive in its approach but memorable in the extreme. The prose is packed with slapstick, imagery and song, an equal ratio of panic and satire, passion and heartache, while it bubbles over with bombast, belligerence and, after acclimatization, brilliance. Truth be told, it took about…
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Review of Sea Above, Sun Below by George Salis
Sea Above, Sun Below by George Salis is a rich and masterful novel. While reading it, from the beginning to end, I never doubted I would rate it five stars. It is a balanced reading experience, told from differing perspectives, chockablock with symbolism and allusion and wordplay. The descriptions of…
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Review of Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
I devoured this scrumptious coming-of-age novel in two sittings. On the level of voice, character development, and humor it struck all the right chords. It’s Catcher in the Rye with a female lead, more modern, more swear words, and just more adult. Easily a cult classic, it was one of…
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Review of The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
One of my favorite books of all time. One of the best film adaptations of a book as well, done by Hiroshi Teshigahara in collaboration with Abe. Both are equally mesmeric. Kobo Abe’s well-honed, surreal worlds became etched permanently in my mind, and this novel more than his others. Even…
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Review of If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Intrigued by the title, one day I opened this book, didn’t get it, put it back, saw it again years later, did the same thing, stumbled upon it again years later with a sense of déjà vu, read no more than a few pages. For some reason, it seemed as…
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Review of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest – the kind of book that, when it is mentioned, creates a hushed silence of mingled awe and fear in the room. A brick of a tome of a journey of a boy and his harried growth in spurts of tennis-fueled tragedy. An obsessive, compulsively readable, unreadable contradiction.…
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Review of Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
A literary apocalypse of compulsive cinematic ungendering. More Kafkaesque than Kafka. More borgesian than Borges. Less Shakespearean than Homer. These accolades mean everything and nothing. Because accolades, in any form, tell partial half-truths, like any communicable piece of information, as Kaufman shows us ad nauseam, in this Rabelaisian charade of…
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Babel: An Interview with REYoung
Thanks to The Collidescope for publishing the interview with author REYoung: Check it out Here.
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GoodReads Giveaway
Undertones is now available for a limited time as a Goodreads Giveaway. Enter for your chance to win a copy. Click Here: Dane was a reliable guitarist until he got addicted to ants. Now he’s just a giant anteater with an abysmal grade point average. On a date with lead…
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Undertones, an Excerpt
Thank you to Bewildering Stories for publishing an excerpt from Undertones. Check it out. Click Here:
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Interview in The Collidescope
Thank you to The Collidescope for the interview. Check out this fascinating literary publication for informative and brilliant content. Click Here
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The Egg & I, a short story
My new short story was published in Red Fez. Check it out! Click Here
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UNDERTONES
Our Noir / Fantasy novel is now available. Click Here Also Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! Click Here
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new flash fiction
Check out our flash fiction in Havok on June 12th, 2019 and vote for it!
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How to Train Your Slime, flash fiction
Bull & Cross published a new flash fiction story by L. S. Popovich! Click Here
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The River Waits, a short story
Now available in issue 705 of Bewildering Stories! Click Here
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The Tale of Nathaniel Ravendrake, a short story
Bewildering Stories published my new short story. Click Here
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