Author Archive
Death Wish Winner Announced
Congratulations to Martha Williams on winning the Death Wish Book Giveaway. Death Wishing author, Laura Ellen Scott, had this to say about judging the wishes submitted and making the difficult decision to choose just one: “So hard to choose! I … Continue reading
Make a Wish and Win Free Books!
Laura Ellen Scott’s excellent and quirky debut novel, Death Wishing (Ig Publishing, 2011), is set in post-Katrina New Orleans. In this wonderfully reimagined world, random dying wishes are granted by some unknown and arbitrary power. Wishes that can cure cancer, magick-away … Continue reading
A Letter from the Fictional Character, Geneva, to her Author, Myfanwy Collins
Engine Books, March, 2012, $14.95 Dear Myfanwy Collins, I want to thank you for telling my story, and the story of the others too, especially the women. I’m glad you didn’t just write down all the terrible. That you … Continue reading
If All They Had Were Their Bodies?
I’ve returned several times to the title of Michelle Reale’s new chapbook, If All They Had Were Their Bodies (Burning River, 2011), posing it as a question of its characters. What if these characters—these vulnerable, sometimes cruel, and often-mistreated children, … Continue reading
Giraffes in Hiding – The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack: A Review by Ethel Rohan
Carol Novak’s Giraffes in Hiding – The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack is a quirky and remarkable collection of forty-one poetic fictions, fusions, and prose poems. This exceptional collection makes for a challenging and absorbing read. To read this book … Continue reading
The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill: A Review by Ethel Rohan
I’m the girl who faithfully raced home from school to watch BBC’s historical drama, Upstairs Downstairs; the teen who reread Wuthering Heights obsessively; and the young adult who attempted to write a novel set in a mansion in nineteenth century … Continue reading
Tenderoni by Kathy Fish: A Review by Ethel Rohan
The story collection, Tenderoni, by Kathy Fish is forthcoming soon from Cow Heavy Books. I had the great honor and pleasure of reading an advance copy. I admit on first learning the story collection’s title, Tenderoni, I felt somewhat ambivalent. … Continue reading
What I Love About YOU
Nuala Ni Chonchoir’s debut novel, You, is set in 1980 Dublin against the charged backdrop of the River Liffey. The novel tells the turbulent story of a ten-year-old girl and her broken family. Narrated through the child’s point of view … Continue reading