Bookshots: 'The Fire Sermon' by Francesca Haig
Review by Stephanie Bonjack
Book one of a dystopian trilogy set 400 years after a massive nuclear war. There's danger, characters on the run, and young love.
Bookshots: 'Aquarium' by David Vann
Review by Cath Murphy
I will never feel the same way about goldfish again.
Bookshots: 'The Age of Earthquakes' by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Review by Joshua Chaplinsky
A guide to the extreme present. The internet in book form.
Bookshots: 'Where All Light Tends to Go' by David Joy
Review by Cath Murphy
Daddy runs a meth-lab. Mommy smokes her breakfast. Life for young Jacob McNeely isn’t exactly easy, but when he screws up a murder, it gets much, much harder.
Bookshots: 'Dark Screams Volume Two' edited by Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman
Review by Christopher Shultz
Part two in the 'Cemetery Dance'-related 'Dark Screams' series tops its predecessor with five horror tales from big name authors.
Bookshots: 'Why I Don't Write Children's Literature' by Gary Soto
Review by Tiffany Turpin Johnson
A memoir-in-essays by multi-award-winning poet and former children's author Gary Soto.
Bookshots: 'Dark Rooms' by Lili Anolik
Review by Leah Dearborn
Although the perpetrator of her sister’s murder is quickly named, a recent prep school graduate becomes obsessed with finding an alternate explanation for the crime.
Bookshots: 'Canary' By Duane Swierczynski
Review by Keith Rawson
A brief review of 'Canary' By Duane Swierczynski
Bookshots: 'Girl in a Band' by Kim Gordon
Review by Christopher Shultz
What's it like to be a girl in a band? Kim Gordon—artist and founding member of Sonic Youth—both answers the question and debunks it.
Bookshots: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ by T. Geronimo Johnson
Review by Dean Fetzer
A college student protest at a Civil War re-enactment goes badly wrong, with fatal consequences.
