A favorite writing teacher, one particularly enamored with short stories, once told me never to approach a collection with the expectation that all, or even most, will be good. He’d said one, two tops, is all you can reasonably ask for. Not every story in “Sex Romp Gone Wrong” carries emotional heft or grace, but a surprising number of them come close and are destined to be read again and again.
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A review of “Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South” by Corey J. Miles.
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From the first lines of The Turtle House, debut historical fiction author Amanda Churchill signals how she plans to spin her masterful family saga from prewar Japan to late 20th Century Texas ranch country. Curtain, Texas March 1, 1999 Paper hates water. It hates wind. And fire. Paper falls apart. There is no home safe…
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From philosophy, to film, to hip-hop, this collection is ripe with references and reflections.
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A review of the film “Desperation Road,” based on the novel by Michael Farris Smith.
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A review of Kiley Reid’s new novel, “Come and Get It.”
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Rose McLarney’s poetry collection reckons with aging, memory’s unreliability and the female experience.
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Do you like to read short stories? Do you like to read stories about morally grey and semi-unsavory women? Do you like to read stories about feminism? Or perhaps read stories in support of anti-racist and anti-queerphobic views? If so, then Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, beautifully edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley, is just the ticket…
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A review of Trish O’Kane’s “Birding to Change the World,” an engaging and eye-opening memoir of one woman’s commitment to her community and the natural world.
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A review of Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s new historical fiction novel, “The American Daughters,” a vibrant and empowering story set in New Orleans from 1851 to the Civil War.
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