Book Reviews

“Trisha Ready Wastes No Words: Her Debut Novel, Nobuko, Strings 108 Vignettes Into a Narrative Philosophy”, The Stranger, 11/13/2025 “The Wood at Widwinter” by Susanne Clarke, New York Journal of Books, 12/16/2024 “Review of The River People by Polly Buckingham”, The Raven Chronicles, 5/24/2021 “Lifeline by Doug Nufer,” The Raven Chronicles, the Jack Straw writers program at 20, Vol. 23, 2016 Fobbit by David Abrams in The Billings Gazette, 9/9/2012 “Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess,” in The Raven Chronicles, Vol.14, No.2, 2009 “Soul of Wind by John Olson,” in The Raven Chronicles, Vol.14, No.2, 2009 “Father Must by Rick Rofihe,” Fictionaut Blog, 5/23/2009 “The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts,” The American Book Review, March/April 2009, Vol. 30, No. 3 “Flight by Sherman Alexie, The WaterBridge Review, October 2007 “Up is Up, But So Is Down: new York’s Downtown Literary Scene: 1974 – 1992 ed. by Brandon Stosuy” The American Book Review, July/August 2007, Vol. 28, No. 5 “Bed: Tao Lin,” The Stranger, Vol. 16, No. 44 , 2007 “Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey,” The WaterBridge Review, September 2006 “Paradiso Diaspora by John Yau,” The Stranger, Vol. 15, No. 44, 2006 “The Time in Between by David Bergen,” The WaterBridge Review, January 2006 “Denny Hill Holdouts: Madison House by Peter Donahue,” Belltown Messenger, December 2005 “Rice Krispies and Soft Summer: Sharon Mesmer,” Boog City, Fall 2005 “Hardboiled & Hard Luck,” The WaterBridge Review, September 2005 “Some of Us Have to Get Up In the Morning,"The Stranger, Vol. 11, #15, December 27, 2002 “Too Much of a Good Thing,” Tablet, #54, November 2002 “Somebody,” Tablet, #50, September 2002 “The Pocket Press Revolution,” Tablet, #49, August 2002 “The Melancholy of Anatomy,” Tablet, #47, July 2002. “What Happened to the Miracle” PIF Magazine, October 2001 “Southern Fried Fiction,”PIF Magazine, June 2001 “Lost Grip on Reality,” PIF Magazine, April 2001 “Half-Moon Scar,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 2000 “Black Berry Geletin Prose,” The American Book Review, Jan/Feb 2000 “Oulipo,” The American Book Review, Jan/Feb 1999 “If You Wanna Lie,”The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1998 “Machine Handwriting,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1998 “Tenant Laws,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1998 “Death of the Cabaret Hegel,” Portlandia Review of Books #7, Summer 1998 “Non-Food,” Voltage #8, 1999 “Oulipo Lab,” Voltage #8, 1999 “Novel Bit Rot,” Voltage #6, 1998 “Burn Your Poems & Ride the Hobby Horse,” Voltage #5, 1998

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