Diego Gerard Morrison’s second novel, Pages of Mourning, may call Mexico its mainhome, but its first scene is a literal writer’s nightmare in a New York City coffee shop. Aureliano Más, the novel’s rarely sober, often haunted, and slyly named protagonist, sees dead people. It happens when he’s asleep and even, sometimes, when he’s awake and…
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A review of “Hang the Moon” by Jeannette Walls.
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A review of “Habitations” by Sheila Sundar.
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In her debut collection of essays, “Sensitive Creatures,” Kirsten Reneau leaves it all on the page: trauma, sexual assault, addiction, suicidal ideation, and amongst the angsty detritus, there remains the undertones of love and hope.
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The New Orleans literary landscape is rich, but Brooke Champagne’s memoir fills a gap in the Big Easy canon.
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Rahul Mehta’s new poetry collection closely examines lived experience by way of metaphor, narrative, juxtaposition and observation.
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“Pilgrims 2.0” is a stunning portrayal of desperation that holds buoyancy in its empathy and finds brutality in asking where the line of violence is drawn or if, perhaps, the line has been drawn too late.
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Laura Apol’s latest collection, “Cauterized,” is an invitation to closer observation.
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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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Southern Review of Books 