Lady Bird in her Own Words
by Robert Leleux / Posted on | 1 CommentMichael L. Gillette’s Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History chronicles Mrs. Johnson’s journey from deep East Texas to the White house and beyond.
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Book Review: Steven Barthelme’s Hush Hush
by Cecily Sailer / Posted on | No CommentsSteven Barthelme’s new short story collection opens with a whimsically tragic monologue delivered by Elliott, a 10-year-old trapped in a school for the gifted and sentenced to therapy after burning himself with a cigarette.
Read full postBeyond Suburbia: The Fifth Lash & Other Stories By Anis Shivani
by Cecily Sailer / Posted on | No CommentsShivani’s new collection, The Fifth Lash & Other Stories, situates its characters within sociopolitical landscapes that figure far more prominently than their homes, offices, and neighborhoods.
Read full postA Boy King’s Literary Coronation
by Roberto Ontiveros / Posted on | No CommentsThe book is a hilarious yet hellish account of wasted days and wasted nights in Brownsville, which Martinez depicts as a dirt-poor land of extreme machismo, where growing up means having to contend with a drug-smuggling father and the hijinks of two sisters who bleach their brown hair blond and call themselves “Mimi” in a fruitless effort to pass as Caucasian.
Read full postSouth American Gothic: Edward Swift’s The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint
by Robert Leleux / Posted on | No CommentsEdward Swift’s latest novel, The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint, is a tumultuous, epic work of magical realism, half The Count of Monte Cristo and half One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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