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01 March 2011

Andrew Zornoza’s Where I Stay, reviewed by Francis Raven at Gently Read Literature

Andrew Zornoza’s Where I Stay is reviewed by Francis Raven at Gently Read Literature

Quoth the Raven: "The story is told through the interplay of three parts (each of which appears on each pair of opened pages): prose poems titled by date and place, photographs presumably from those places, and quasi captions that sometimes throw the reading off the author’s trail. It is the intuitive (not necessarily logical, but always intriguing) interplay between these elements that keeps the reader’s attention and forces a place to emerge, a place that is perhaps equivalent with a narrative, but one that cannot be pinned to the ground."

Click here for the full review

Also visit the webpage for Andrew Zornoza’s Where I Stay or check out some excerpts, below.

13 July 2010

Tuesday Triskaidekaphobia

Via Diagram's new issue, Matt Dube reviews Traci O. Connor's Recipes for Endangered Species

Says Dube: "Points of view shift and tilt, almost imperceptibly, and bring you to understand identity differently than what you previously allowed for: these disparate voices, these parallax views, the linguistic franks belong together, the stories say, and the way Connor bends and warps language in humid paragraphs, doesn't let you argue."

Nor will we argue. Click here to read the full review.

Click here to check out Traci's book, which, you should know, contains many frightening cocktail recipes as well as photos of dolls sans limbs.

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