Category Archives: Book Reviews

Addicts and Basements (A Review)

By Gabino Iglesias Civil Coping Mechanisms 142 pages | $13.95 Robert Vaughan’s Addicts & Basements places the reader on shaky ground from the first page and relentlessly delivers short blasts of weird, dark, surprising, funny, and sad writing in order … Continue reading

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Doll Palace by Sara Lippmann (A Review)

By Leesa Cross-Smith Dock Street Press 198 pgs. | $16.00               Doll Palace (Dock Street Press, September 2014) by Sara Lippmann is a simple book, a simple collection of stories. There are no quotation marks and the feelings are equally … Continue reading

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Above All Men by Eric Shonkwiler (A Review)

By David S. Atkinson MG Press 266 Pages | $15 Read an excerpt here             Whenever I review a book, I try to look for a handle…a way in to talking about it. Some books are easier than others to get … Continue reading

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