The Lighthouse Road, by Peter Geye
by Aaron J. Cance
Landscape and character connect and crackle in Peter Geye’s second novel, which investigates the wildness both in nature and within ourselves.
Landscape and character connect and crackle in Peter Geye’s second novel, which investigates the wildness both in nature and within ourselves.
Hello again, FWR friends. Welcome to the latest installment of our “First Looks” series, which highlights soon-to-be released books that have piqued my interest as a reader-who-writes. We publish “First Looks” here on the FWR blog around the 15th of each month, and as always, I’d love to hear your comments and your recommendations of forthcoming titles. Please drop me a line anytime: erika(at)fictionwritersreview(dot)com, and thanks in advance. First, W.W. Norton is releasing what strikes me as a must-read anthology for fiction writers: Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts. Edited by David Shields and Matthew […]
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