Monthly Archives: February 2014

In which we learn that saving the world is not so very different from selling shoes when one stops and thinks about it… The always interesting Teresa Milbrodt’s latest story collection, Larissa Takes Flight, is what the publisher calls a “pastiche novel.” … Continue reading →

In which life and coffee turn out to be better when richer and more exotic… Teresa Milbrodt writes in a genre that a fellow author calls “Midwestern Mythic.” Her recent novel, The Patron Saint of Unattractive People, certainly fits her genre … Continue reading →

Knowing where you’re going takes all the fun out of getting there… Kara McAllister is lost and she knows it. That’s why she is drawn to a strange Rand- McNally map of the Inter-mountain West that she finds in a Powell’s … Continue reading →

Maybe feminism isn’t all that recent as a social movement – or, “we built this city on women’s roles…” One of the tendencies of modern scholarship has been to “re-interpret” texts from other historical eras in light of modern (or postmodern … Continue reading →

The dark side of the 1970’s – family disintegration, existential angst, and other snakes in Southern California’s Eden emerge in Sumioka’s debut novel…. Mark Sumioka’s The Threshold of Insult is the first full length novel from a writer whose gritty, realistic fiction has graced the … Continue reading →