Three-Minute Book Review: Katie Burgess on The Quiet Part Loud by Tyler Barton (Split Lip Press, 2018) - If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow? I’m pretty sure this book would grow ginger. Like ginger roots, these stories all have their own weird,...
Three-Minute Book Review: Katie Burgess on Failures by Matt Tompkins (Monday Night Press, 2019). - If this book were a GIF, which would it be? It would be that one where the guy is pushing a trashcan but then trips and falls all the way inside the trashcan;...
Three-Minute Book Review: Jennifer Schomburg Kanke on Passing through Humansville, by Karen Craigo (Sundress Publications, 2018). - 1) If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow? Every plant that grows from this book would turn into something else when...
Three-Minute Book Review - Emily Webber on The End We Start From, by Megan Hunter (Grove Press, November 2017) - What snack should you have while reading this book? Clams, mussels, a scallop (only one and only if you are very lucky), jellyfish, octopus,...
Three Minute Book Review: Katharine Coldiron on Stacy Austin Egan’s You Could Stop It Here (PANK Books, 2018) - 1) What book is this book’s nemesis? House of Leaves. This book privileges simple storytelling and immature voices. Not in a bad way: these stories...
Three-Minute Book Review: Lauren Moseley on Emily Jungmin Yoon's Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017) - 1) If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow? A pear tree, a train, a monument to the wianbu—Korean women and girls who were kept and repeatedly...
Three-Minute Book Review: Katharine Coldiron on Maya Sonenberg’s After the Death of Shostakovich Père(PANK Books, 2018) - 1) What is this book’s theme song? Despite the name, it is not something by Shostakovich. It’s the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh...
Three-Minute Review: Amy Beeder on Lauren Camp's One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016) - What should you eat while reading this? Dates, candied apricots, olives…but I’m cheating, because this book is full of food: brown boiled eggs, m’hasha, lamb, liver,...
Three-Minute Book Review: Jeff Alessandrelli on Dan Kaplan’s Instant Killer Wig (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) - If Dan Kaplan’s great new book Instant Killer Wigwere an animal, it’d be a bat, an alluring mix of fur and reptile that refuses to solely exist within (good...