Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, by Emma Straub
by Jackie Reitzes
Emma Straub’s first novel is a paen to old Hollywood–both its heroines and its illusions.
Emma Straub’s first novel is a paen to old Hollywood–both its heroines and its illusions.
Bestselling author Tatjana Soli sets forth an ambitious and harrowing tale in her new novel.
Down-and-out Benjamin Benjamin on a zany road trip riddled with crises – mechanical, personal, existential.
Not for the faint of heart. Glitter, doom, and a bracing imaginative landscape await in Binder’s debut collection.
Love, darkness and the long shadows of myth haunt the American Southwest in Battleborn, a debut collection from Claire Vaye Watkins.
A debut collection focused on quiet lives that intersect, collide, and separate – forever altered by the encounter.
A zombie wanders a big-box store, terrifying employees. A company that outsources grief. Yu serves up the human condition with a SciFi twist.
Howard L. Anderson’s debut novel features a peculiar amalgam of talking wallabies, action-packed shoot-outs, and timeless Old West themes repackaged under an unforgiving Australian sun.
From Patton Oswalt’s plea for Playboys strewn through the forest, to the evolution of Lemurs, Monkeybicycle is fast, fresh, and funny. This ain’t your father’s lit journal.
What can we learn from Chris Cleve’s interesting but sugary summer read about competing Olympic cyclists? That well-assigned conflicts are what make bestsellers tick.
Richard Ford returns to Montana and heads north to Canada. His seventh novel explores life’s borders.
In her thoughtful, entertaining new collection, Signs and Wonders, Alix Ohlin lures readers into what seem like lulls, and then, there it is: a car crash. A coma. A missing child. A man licking a woman’s leg.
