Published Reviews
ForeWord Magazine reviews
by T. R. Hummer
Having vaporized a class bully, Calvin says to Hobbes, “my ethicator machine must have had a built-in moral compromise spectral release phantasmatron!” About a...
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El Paso Times reviews
"Lit Windowpane" (Main Street Rag, $14) is a tight collection of poems that speaks to the beauty of the natural world, as well as the relationships between...
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http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2002spring/hummer.shtml reviews
by T. R. Hummer
In his previous collection, Walt Whitman in Hell, T. R. Hummer contrasted Whitman's idealistic lyrics of America with visions of a blighted nation, culminating in...
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The Montreal Gazette reviews
The best stories may be short, but never small; in fact, the ones that move us most deeply embody whole worlds. Such is true of the tough tales in Fierce, the...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
by Mindy Lewis
“…a moving, poignant and enraging, yet redemptive, account of one woman’s refusal to accept victimization, powerfully told in vivid, poetic prose.”
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
by Mindy Lewis
“In lyrical, honest language, a painter describes her adolescence in a New York psychiatric hospital…Complex, chilling, luminous: not one false step.”
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KRT News Wire reviews
Ben Fong-Torres tells how (Omaha radio station owner) Todd Storz and his program director, Bill Stewart, noticed how patrons at a bar kept playing the same few...
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Charlotte Observer reviews
by Scott Owens
The poet in “The Fractured World” builds a palpable world of stadiums, cellars, bathrooms, closets, stairwells, guns, hand grenades, corpses, KFC, Winn-Dixie, “...
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Adagio Verse Quarterly reviews
by Scott Owens
The Fractured World by Scott Owens deserves to be widely read both for its poetic and its social worth. These poems—so much more than a story of coming of age—are...
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Wall Street Journal reviews
Most computer processing chips are built on the foundations of the chips that are already in use. Designing a new chip from the ground up is a costly and time-...
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El Paso Times reviews
Sometimes in a Tomlinson tale, it's difficult to tell the winners from the losers, the resilient from the fragile. But his magic lies in the shadows of people's...
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Kirkus Reviews Special Edition: Fresh Fiction: 35 Promising Debuts reviews
Kirkus Review spotlighted Madapple in its special edition, "Fresh Fiction: 35 Promising Debuts."
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The Los Angeles Times reviews
Erika Schickel, the author of "You're Not the Boss of Me," is the girlfriend we had in high school and college who was soda-through-the-nose hilarious. ...
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BlogCritics Magazine reviews
"McCormack’s book highlights the cracks in the paved chainmail, illuminating the repulsive truth of an exchange of political fluids for powerful gain with a series...
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LibraryThing &c reviews
“I got a copy through the Early Reviewers group, and raced through this while traveling over the weekend. It's a series of interconnected short stories set on the...
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The Times Literary Supplement reviews
An important and engrossing book, which reveals as much about the appetites and formulas of emerging mass culture as it does about tribal cultures in nineteenth-...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
by Beth Hoffman
"This lovely novel has earned the status of “LizPick” even before it's published."
Liz Murphy, the Learned Owl Book Shop, Hudson, Ohio
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Publishers Weekly reviews
Just before Elle's 16th birthday, her mother dumps her in her own New York City apartment (her stepfather "[doesn't] want a teenager around"). Alone, except for a...
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http://www.milorambles.com/2010/11/15/no-cry-for-help-by-grant-mckenzie-book-review/ reviews
"One of the most frenetic, atmospheric and imaginative books I’ve read this year. “No Cry For Help” by Grant McKenzie is one of the quickest page turners I have...
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