Reviews

Bookshots: "Since We Fell" by Dennis Lehane

May 9th, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Since We Fell Who wrote it? Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and many others. If you’re a fan of crime fiction, you’ve probably read something he’s written. Hopefully not this one, though.

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Bookshots: 'Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World' by Jorge Zepeda Patterson

May 3rd, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World

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Bookshots: "Getting Off" by Jonathan Reiss

May 2nd, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Getting Off Who wrote it? Jonathan Reiss, whose nonfiction work has appeared in Complex, Interview, Noisey, SPIN Magazine, The Source, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and more. Getting Off is his debut novel.

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Bookshots: 'Borne' by Jeff VanderMeer

April 25th, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Borne

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Bookshots: 'Entropy in Bloom' by Jeremy Robert Johnson

April 19th, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Entropy in Bloom Who wrote it? Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Skullcrack City and other mind-melting nightmares, former publisher of said nightmares at the now defunct Swallowdown press.

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Bookshots: "Every Night I Dream of Hell" by Malcolm Mackay

April 12th, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Every Night I Dream of Hell Who wrote it? Malcolm Mackay, author of the award-winning Glasgow Trilogy.

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Bookshots: "Cruel is the Night" by Karo Hamalainen

April 7th, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Cruel is the Night Who wrote it? Originally written in Finnish by Karo Hamalainen then translated into English by Owen Witesman. Plot in a box: Reading this book is like taking out the trash and having the bottom of the bag rip halfway down the driveway. Four friends have dinner together, and by the end of the night all but one of them will be dead.

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Bookshots: "Bullet Gal" by Andrez Bergen

April 6th, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Bullet Gal Who wrote it? Andrez Bergen has had an eclectic career as a musician, novelist and comic book writer, amongst many other things. Little Nobody in his music, he launched the IF? Commix publishing label in 2013.

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Bookshots: "Hell's Gate" By Laurent Gaudé

April 6th, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Hell’s Gate Who wrote it? Best-selling, award-winning French novelist and playwright, Laurent Gaudé.

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Bookshots: "Catalina Eddy" by Daniel Pyne

April 5th, 2017

Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Catalina Eddy Who wrote it? Daniel Pyne Plot in a Box: Daniel Pyne really gets it — his language is deft, his storytelling skills spectacular. I highly recommend this book. This novel is actually three novellas connected by thin threads. The Big Empty: A private eye hunts down his long-since-separated wife’s killer in 1954.

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