Two Men in a Tub: A Sudsy Interview with Humorist Robert Wringham
Robert Wringham’s Rub-A-Dub-Dub slips neck-deep into the wet hot mess of middle-age angst. From the comfort of his bath, so to speak, he talks about it.
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In ‘Girlfriend on Mars’ a RomCom Competes with Climate Change
Girlfriend on Mars equips itself nicely on the climate change front, but subsuming that narrative and the tensions within it into the love story redirects the novel’s orbit.
Acid Trips Meet Ancestral Trauma in ‘All-Night Pharmacy’
With the same shocking specificity that sets apart her poetry, Ruth Madievsky’s All-Night Pharmacy brings us uncomfortably close to everything the narrator witnesses in a hospital waiting room.
The Punk Rock Sci-Fi of Izumi Suzuki’s ‘Hit Parade of Tears’
Though her fiction retains elements of future conjecture and civilizational prognosis, like punk rock itself, Izumi Suzuki is more committed to the sci-fi genre as an edgy social and emotional analysis tool.
Author John Wray on the Death Metal Novel as Flamethrower
Like the death and black metal bands it includes, John Wray’s novel Gone to the Wolves is a full-on assault on the senses that doesn’t hold back.
Caroline Hagood’s ‘Filthy Creation’ Makes the Monster Within a Work of Fiction
The inner Frankenstein that informed Caroline Hagood’s non-fiction Weird Girls lurches through her new work of fiction, Filthy Creation.
Grief and Creation in Philip Jason’s ‘Window Eyes’
With its focus on tellings, retellings, recreation, and the act of seeing Philip Jason’s Window Eyes takes poignant notice of the all-encompassing perspectives we create with the people we love.
Spanish Poet Eva Baltasar Tackles the Lesbian Parenting Novel With ‘Boulder’
With Boulder, Eva Baltasar lays bare with her incisive power of observation and blade-like prose the unpleasant realities of parenthood.
Michael Imperioli’s ‘The Perfume Burned His Eyes’ Could Be Titled In the Thrall
Emmy-winning actor Michael Imperioli’s debut novel, The Perfume Burned His Eyes seems at first a coming-of-age tale, but its tumultuous thralldom is a swift current.
Horror Is Visceral in Andy Davidson’s Southern Gothic ‘The Hollow Kind’
Andy Davidson’s The Hollow Kind blends southern gothic, folk, and Lovecraftian horror to create a multi-generational tale about greed, grief, and familial love.
Debut ‘The Novelist’ Is Among the Best Books About Addiction
Jordan Castro’s debut The Novelist is a relatable and humorous study of the economy of plotting, ironic description, and the addictive nature of the self.
Debut Novel ‘The Wild Hunt’ Sets a Celtic Legend on the Loose
The uncontrollable violence of the natural and the supernatural in Celtic Legend take to the wing in Emma Seckel’s debut novel The Wild Hunt.