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Bookshots: 'Pirate Utopia' by Bruce Sterling
November 14th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Pirate Utopia
Read Review →Bookshots: "The Sick Bag Song" by Nick Cave
November 7th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Sick Bag Song Who Wrote It: Legendary Australian singer Nick Cave, of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Pull Me Under' by Kelly Luce
November 3rd, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Pull Me Under The most compelling thread throughout 'Pull Me Under' is Luce’s take on the cultural phenomenon of Kireru (a term used to describe kids in Japan who snap and commit violent acts) and Rio’s fear that it could happen again. Who wrote it?
Read Review →Bookshots: "Reel" by Tobias Carroll
November 3rd, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Reel Who wrote it? Tobias Carroll, a prolific freelance journalist/writer, interviewer, book reviewer, and the man behind the popular literary magazine Vol.1 Brooklyn.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror' Edited By Ellen Datlow
November 2nd, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror Who wrote it? It’s a huge anthology, so the authors are numerous. But it was edited by the God of horror anthologists, Ellen Datlow. Plot in a Box: I’ll go ahead and let Datlow sum it up for me from her introduction:
Read Review →Bookshots: 'A Bloom of Bones' by Allen Morris Jones
November 1st, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: A Bloom of Bones Who wrote it? Allen Morris Jones, a prolific writer of short stories and essays and the author of Last Year’s River. He also is the editor of Big Sky Journal.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Certain Dark Things' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
October 25th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Certain Dark Things Who wrote it? Are you one of those people who like to bitch about vampire lit being too pretty? Then shut your trap and pick this up immediately. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Signal to Noise and publisher at Innsmouth Free Press.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Land of Love and Ruins' by Oddny Eir
October 25th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Land of Love and Ruins Who Wrote It: A quiet and intriguing book that contemplates the connections between people and their environments, posing broad questions that should resonate with readers from very different backgrounds. Oddný Eir, translated by Philip Roughton
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Agnes' by Peter Stamm, translated by Michael Hofmann
October 24th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Agnes Who wrote it? We are all the heroes of our own story, and sometimes, like the anonymous narrator, we can forget that other people are not simply our supporting characters. Swiss writer Peter Stamm. The translation is by Michael Hofmann.
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