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September 13th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Summerlong Who Wrote It: A delicate and interesting work of speculative fiction that should please old Beagle fans and win him a few new ones. Legendary fantasy author, Peter S. Beagle, who is best known for penning The Last Unicorn.
Read Review →September 12th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Nutshell Who wrote it? I found it distasteful, intellectually insulting, and its prose painfully cringe worthy. Bestselling, award-winning English novelist, Ian McEwan.
Read Review →September 7th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: We Eat Our Own Who wrote it? The way Wilson is able to spin a sentence and describe violence is akin to a beautiful poem carved into a corpse’s rotting flesh. Kea Wilson, a bookseller from St. Louis. This is her first novel.
Read Review →September 6th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Boys of Summer: A Novel Who wrote it? Author of three previous books, including The God particle and Thomas World, Richard Cox has contributed to TheNervousBreakdown.com, The Land Press and Oklahoma Magazine.
Read Review →September 2nd, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Dead Dogs & Splintered Hearts Who wrote it? While the characters are mostly execrable, it is fascinating to watch them in action, like train wrecks in slow motion. Tom Ward, who won the GQ Norman Mailer Award in 2012.
Read Review →August 30th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Nix Who wrote it? Winner of the journal Fiction’s annual Fiction Prize for his short story “The Bottle”, Nathan Hill’s short stories have appeared in publications including The Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review and Fugue. He’s currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of St Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Read Review →August 17th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Rise The Dark Who wrote it? A powerfully written and fast moving novel that combines a terrifying home invasion thriller with a heavy supernatural vibe. Best-selling thriller author, Michael Koryta
Read Review →August 9th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir Who wrote it? Why [do] we devote so much effort to the past, when the future is really all we have? Susan Daitch, described by David Foster Wallace (presumably before he died) as ‘one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the US today.’
Read Review →August 8th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories
Read Review →August 8th, 2016
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties Who wrote it? This thing will get you off your ass and in the mood to create something. Not just a sex book, but anything. Edited by B. Astrid Daley and Adam Parfrey, with contributions by Stephen J. Gertz, Jay A. Gertzman, John Gilmore, Michael Hemmingson, Lydia Lunch, Lynn Munroe, and Robert Silverberg.
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