Published Reviews

Montreal Mirror reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "Ovenman reads like a high calibre graphic novel, minus the graphics. Cluttered, uncomfortable, compulsively crafted, unashamed of occasional farce or relentless... Read More »	Boldtype reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "While the plot is certifiably hilarious, it's really When's voice that's in the driver's seat. Dazed, confused, and occasionally caring, he carries all 250 pages... Read More »
Willamette Week reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "Equal parts sleazy and frenetic, Parker's debut is a chortle-out-loud story about the sweaty, battle-scarred struggle between creating self-monuments and throwing... Read More »	The Oregonian reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "Ovenman may leave some readers puzzling over how When can be such a dope in some ways and still such a fun narrator. Parker rides that thin line of narrative... Read More »
Indigo Editing reviews Human Resources by Josh Goldfaden Human Resources is the first collection of short stories by Josh Goldfaden. Goldfaden used alternating satire and sincerity to examine various attempts at meaning... Read More »	Emerging Writers Network reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "Ovenman should end up being taught in MFA programs as an incredible example of a novel centered around voice. That's not to say that all Jeff Parker has done is... Read More »
Diagram reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "Parker riffs on the brilliant, bombastic language of one When Thinfinger, pizza cook and then night manager at Gainesville, FL's Piecemeal Pizza by the Slice.... Read More »	Matrix Magazine reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "Vivid and honest...Ovenman is propelled by tight and precise sentences that fall from one into the other as Thinfinger's life falls apart. The writing is... Read More »
ELLE reviews Human Resources by Josh Goldfaden "...a series of gently askew tales at once utterly odd and oddly humane. Using language as kinetic and inventive as his playful yet pointed plots, Goldfaden is... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Human Resources by Josh Goldfaden "The seven far-out stories in Goldfaden's impressive debut explore the absurd without giving in to it. The first story, 'The Veronese Circle,' encapsulates a four-... Read More »

Pedestal Magazine reviews Landscapes of Longing by Bruce Lader Lader segues from the personal and social into the political with “Agrigento, Sicily (July 17, 1941).” The loss and grief of individuals in the bombed city could... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews Naked Moon by Domenic Stansberry Read More »
New York Times reviews House Justice by Mike Lawson Washington political thrillers are, for the most part, born to be boring. The hero is usually some high-minded lawyer who’s become disillusioned after placing his... Read More »	The Globe & Mail reviews Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives by Lauren B. Davis "Nell's husband, a failed farmer, is abject and dangerous. A week before he takes his fists to Nell she sees her first rat. The varmint has a smug look, staring... Read More »
www.Truthdig.com reviews Our Daily Bread by Lauren B. Davis “Thrilling . . . unflinching . . . unforgettable. It's difficult to write about the beauty of Davis' storytelling . . . suffice it to say she seeks to unfold... Read More »	SF Chronicle reviews Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Q Lam Elizabeth Rosner March 31, 2013 Birds of Paradise LostStoriesBy Andrew Lam(Red Hen; 200 pages; $15.95 paperback) Several decades have passed since harrowing... Read More »
The News Review reviews The Wish & The Wonder: Words of Wisdom for Expectant Parents by Gail Perry Johnston Gail Perry Johnston and Jill Perry Rabideau launched Cupola Press to help people through challenging times. They take the approach of not telling anyone what to do... Read More »	The Big Issue (north) reviews Restitution by Eliza Graham With Europe ravaged in the closing stages of world war two, Russia's advancing Red Army causes the civilian population of Germany to flee in terror. Alix, the... Read More »
The Raabe Review reviews Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks In the hands of up-and-coming author Christopher Meeks, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. His short story collection, Months and Seasons, focuses on the... Read More »	The Short Review reviews WOMEN UP ON BLOCKS by Mary Akers The female protagonists in this collection are prisoners in multifarious ways: trapped by the weight of marriage to errant/insensitive men, the burden of childcare... Read More »