Published Reviews

The Midwest Book Review reviews Mosquito by Alex Lemon "Mosquito is an enigmatic, engaging read. Ideal for those who enjoy formal and experimental poetry alike, Alex Lemon's book is a truly remarkable debut." Read More »	LA Times reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith "Zak Smith, with uninhibited bravado and exactly the right kind of insanity, has done something remarkable in [Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas... Read More »
The Oregonian reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith "[Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow] can be enjoyed on its own or read simultaneously with the 1973 novel,... Read More »	The Elegant Variation reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith Zak Smith is an artist who has illustrated a scene from every page of Gravity’s Rainbow. No one asked Zak to do this but he did it anyway, which says a great deal... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith Much like Pynchon's acclaimed 1974 novel, Smith's extraordinary visual tribute can seem both too big and too good to be true. The 750 or so hallucinatory drawings... Read More »	USA Today reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith "The drawings are surprisingly detailed, colorful and contemplative, adding new layers to the text and potentially earning Pynchon some new fans." Read More »
The Washington Post reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith "The end result of his endeavor is less an illustrated novel than a series of eerie, high art interpretations." Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin "A wide range of bizarre disquisitions and turns of events marks Corin's debut collection. The narrator of 'Wizened' declares that she 'became crotchety' at age 24... Read More »
Rain Taxi reviews The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin "The Entire Predicament is fiercely strange and written with keen control. You don't read these stories: you undergo them. They are an event that is lived, not an... Read More »	E!Online reviews The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin Lucy Corin's The Entire Predicament. These stories take about 10 seconds each to get their hooks in you for life. Do those hooks hurt? Of course they do, in all... Read More »

Publishers Weekly reviews Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains -- the Science Behind Love, Sex, and Attraction by Jena Pincott [starred review] Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? Bodies, Behavior, and Brains—the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction Jena Pincott. Delacorte, $20 (384p... Read More »	Vallum Magazine reviews The Infinity Sessions: Poems by T. R. Hummer Review by Maxianne Berger The Infinity Sessions, by T.R. Hummer (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005, $19.95 US) One of my early creative writing... Read More »
Erotica Readers and Writers Association reviews Night's Kiss: Lesbian Erotica by Catherine Lundoff "Finding sixteen of Catherine Lundoff’s stories in one place saves the reader from having to search for them in numerous erotic anthologies – not that the search... Read More »	Shelf Awareness Review reviews The Harvard Psychedelic Club -- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties... by Don Lattin Aldous Huxley was a major inspiration for the four men Don Lattin profiles in this lively retelling of the start of America's romance with hallucinogenic drugs. In... Read More »
Romance Reader at Heart reviews The Commander's Desire by Jennette Green Ms. Green’s portrayal of the Commander was refreshing. He was kind and caring without being wimpy, and it takes a talented author to bring that out in a character... Read More »	H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online) reviews Opa Nobody by Sonya Huber Huber's novel reflects her poignant, sincere, moving effort to connect with a grandfather she never knew and a world she could only hope to imagine. All along, she... Read More »
Winnipeg Free Press reviews Island Girl by Lynda Simmons This is Toronto author Simmons' second novel. The first, Getting Rid of Rosie, came out in 2009. Set in Muskoka, it featured a quirky love story whose main... Read More »	Books and Novels of the Ancient World (subsection of Roman Times) reviews Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) by Kelli Stanley ...I felt like I had bought a ticket to see "Gladiator" but made a wrong turn inside the cineplex and stumbled into Tarrentino's "Pulp Fiction". But as the novel... Read More »
www.ireadromance.com reviews Mystic Stones by Kiki Howell Author Kiki Howell provides four steamy short stories with a particular central focal point – the magic of stones. This anthology displays a nice array of... Read More »	Milwaukee Shepherd Express reviews The UFO Phenomenon by John Michael Greer Greer will satisfy neither credulous UFOlogists nor rock-headed skeptics. But far more interesting than any more polemic, The UFO Phenomenon is a rigorously argued... Read More »