Tag Archives: Spring 2015

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

Eimear McBride Coffee House Press ($24) by Alex Brubaker Eimear McBride’s debut novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, begins with a jolt to the reader’s sense of language, reality, and any traditional form of exposition for a novel. The book opens with the unnamed narrator at two years old, and McBride effortlessly weaves in […]

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”

Lena Dunham Random House ($28) by Erin Lewenauer Lena Dunham’s film Tiny Furniture and television show Girls registered instantly with an entire generation, confirming her as its voice. Through laughs and tears and quirks, Dunham reassures her fellow Millennials that they aren’t alone in witnessing the bizarre become familiar in recent years. She saw it […]

Waldo & Magic, Inc.

Robert A. Heinlein Baen ($14) by Ryder W. Miller Waldo & Magic, Inc., by science fiction pioneer Robert Heinlein, presents two novellas from the early 1940s that were breakthrough works at that time. Heinlein is more famous for the novels he published during the 1960s, especially Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), but he also […]

Daughters of Your Century

Dan Thomas-Glass Furniture Press Books ($15.99) by Chris Martin The poems in Dan Thomas-Glass’ first full-length book are formally agile without ever losing their ethical vigor. Ethics are the central concern of his writing and this concern is magnified through the lens of fatherhood, which he seamlessly, though never quietly, incorporates into his lyrical explorations. […]

The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber Hogarth ($28) by James Naiden Futuristic fiction tends to be believable in that none of us knows what the world will be like in half a century, and absurd because the present is all we have by which to judge the plausibility of a fantastic tale. Such was the case in 1888 when […]

Spring 2015

INTERVIEWS Of Film and Smoke: An Interview with Iain Sinclair Interview by Paul McRandle The British writer and filmmaker talks about epic journeys, American Smoke, and escaping London with John Clare. Tapping into a Rural Religion: an Interview with Nick McRae Interview by Connor Bjotvedt Poet McRae discusses his award-winning chapbook Mountain Redemption, which focuses […]