by Jaime R. Herndon As in every anthology, some essays warranted more than one read, while others were skipped, and then read when the rest...
Review: Mañana Means Heaven by Tim Z. Hernandez
by Gina Lujan Boubion In October 1947, Jack Kerouac met a pretty, young Mexican woman named Bea Franco on a bus going from Bakersfield to...
Review: What We’ve Lost is Nothing by Rachel Louise Snyder
by Carla Stockton Anyone who’s ever been held up in any way will tell you that in the aftermath, such a transgression is alarmingly unnerving;...
Review: The Passions of Christ Exhibit
by Tomek Jedrowski Everything about it exudes sensuality: the closeness of their bodies in the absence of eye contact, the shine of their polyester shirts,...
Review: Critique of Pure Reason by Gabriel Blackwell
by Lilly O'Donnell ... Blackwell attempts to challenge the way we read a story in the same way Kant challenged the way we perceive the...
Review: The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
by Carla Stockton The Fitzgerald of the essays is deafened by the noise of his flapper-dominated dreams and nightmares.
Review: Transatlantic by Colum McCann
by Angelica Baker His characters find triumph not in the realization of their hopes, but rather in the acceptance of the hands that life ultimately...
Review: Tumbledown by Robert Boswell
by Oren Smilansky It reads like an even more ridiculous version of The Breakfast Club.
Review: The Guy Davenport Reader
by Adam Winters Reading Guy Davenport is a joyous occasion for the curious.
Review: Fire and Forget anthology
by Elisabeth Sherman ... is it really cliché if this is what these people experienced?
Review: Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
by Amy Feltman All the elements of this novel that could usher in clichés instead somersault through our expectations.
Review: The Potty Mouth at the Table by Laurie Notaro
by Jaime R. Herndon Life stories with humor interspersed in them, not stories of hobos or lists of things you don’t want to hear in...