Bookshots: 'Coincidence' by J.W. Ironmonger
Review by Leah Dearborn
J.W. Ironmonger's ambitious and contemplative novel prompts readers to reconsider the small coincidences in their lives.
Bookshots: 'Prayers for the Stolen' by Jennifer Clement
Review by Cath Murphy
A story of hope, survival and Princess Diana dolls in the mountains of Mexico.
Bookshots: 'Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public)' by Pamela Ribon
Review by Tiffany Turpin Johnson
In a mostly funny memoir of her 1990s-era teens, Ribon recounts the hardships of being a pubescent writer with too much word vomit and no internet trash can.
Bookshots: 'The Bear' by Claire Cameron
Review by Brian McGackin
What were you doing when you were five? Were you surviving bear attacks? I bet you weren't surviving bear attacks.
Bookshots: 'USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series' edited by Johnny Temple
Review by Tiffany Turpin Johnson
We review this collection of the best tales from the nearly sixty volumes of geographically-themed anthologies of American noir.
Bookshots: 'Sexplosion' by Robert Hofler
Review by Christopher Shultz
In the late sixties/early seventies, a wave of media rebels challenged the censors with realistic scenes of sex. This is their story.
Bookshots: 'The UnAmericans' by Molly Antopol
Review by Cath Murphy
In this collection of eight stories, Molly Antopol extracts the Reds from under our beds and gives them a chance to explain themselves.
Bookshots: 'The Corpse Exhibition' by Hassan Blasim
Review by Leah Dearborn
Hassan Blasim's collection of stories presents a surreal interior view of both the Iraq War and a multitude of horrors that followed in its wake.
Bookshots: 'This Dark Road To Mercy' by Wiley Cash
Review by BH Shepherd
A brief review of Wiley Cash's new novel, "This Dark Road To Mercy."
