REVIEWS
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperback, 208 pages Stuart Dybek’s Ecstatic Cahoots is a two-hundred page collection of fifty stories. They’re “bite-sized,” according to the market-…
In The Secret Life of Objects, Dawn Raffel treats readers to dozens of flash nonfictions revolving around household bric-a-brac. Each object, which titles a chapter,…
Liliane’s Balcony by Kelcey Parker 208 pages, Rose Metal Press In Kelcey Parker’s cleverly woven novella-in-flash, a group of tourists arrives separately at Frank Lloyd…
50 pages, BlazeVOX Books Urging the poet to be concrete and specific, William Carlos Williams says, “No ideas, but in things.” This became my mantra…
Graywolf’s 2009 reissue of J. Robert Lennon’s collection of literary anecdotes, Pieces for the Left Hand, seems to have found its niche as one of…
The Storm That Bears Your Name by Matthew Mahaney The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2015 52 pages. Perfect bound. Matthew Mahaney’s The Storm That Bears Your Name…
Flash Fiction International Editors: James Thomas, Robert Shapard, Christopher Merrill W.W. Norton & Co., 2015 288 pages ISBN 978-0-393-34607-7 This year, James Thomas and Robert…
Shame Shame, by Devin Becker (BOA Editions, 2015) ISBN 9781938160592, $16.00 Becker’s debut poetry collection, which recasts the prose poem as a selfie, diary entry,…
When Mystical Creatures Attack! Kathleen Founds University of Iowa Press, 2014 206 pages ISBN 978-1609382834, $12.97 In this genre-blending novel-in-stories, Kathleen Founds experiments with different…
Alexis Pope, Bone Matter and Aubrey Hirsch, This Will Be His Legacy Split Series Volume 1 The Lettered Streets Press, 2014 92 pp. ISBN: 978-0-991863-1-0…