by Natasha Dennerstein | Oct 31, 2023 | Book Reviews
Review of Missing Possibilities by Jaime Balboa The first of these excellent stories gives the collection its name: Missing Possibilities and concerns a runaway teenage boy. The friend looking for him tells the events in flashback and it transpires that he has been... 
by Joanna Acevedo | Sep 5, 2023 | Book Reviews
Review of Phantom Advances by Mary Lynn Reed The stories in Phantom Advances, out now from Split Lip Press by debut author Mary Lynn Reed, are often hard to take. They are filled with yearning—frequently to an uncomfortable degree, and in many cases, they do not have... 
by Joanna Acevedo | Aug 15, 2023 | Book Reviews
Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian Reviewed Cleo Qian’s Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go, set alternately in Japan, China, Korea and America, is reminiscent of a disco ball—no matter which way you turn it, it remains luminous, catching the light and sending shards... 
by Joanna Acevedo | Jun 27, 2023 | Book Reviews
Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s Happy Stories Mostly Anthology Reviewed The stories in Happy Stories, Mostly, which is forthcoming from Feminist Press this June, are not happy—they do not even pretend to be happy. No, most of these stories are tragic—within these... 
by Joanna Acevedo | May 1, 2023 | Book Reviews
A Review of Journal Of A Black Queer Nurse by Britney Daniels Britney Daniels’ Journal of A Black Queer Nurse, forthcoming from Common Notions in May 2023, promises to deliver, and it does. Daniels is a conversational, likable writer from start to finish, but the... 
by Joanna Acevedo | Apr 21, 2023 | Book Reviews
A Review of Cataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins Allison Blevins’ Cataloguing Pain, out in April from YesYes Books, is a lyric memoir like no other. Told in two parts—before and after her husband’s transition—Blevins fearlessly explores through hybrid poetry her...
