by Stephen Febick | Jun 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories
Set between China and The US over a thirty-year period, My Old Faithful tells the story of one Chinese family and their growth over ten interconnected stories. Author Yang Huang’s debut novel, Living Treasures, told the story of two young lovers in the summer of 1989...
by Stephen Febick | Sep 19, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Science Fiction, Sponsored
Set in 2021, The Wolves Within Our Walls is a realistic look at a future where the height of technology crumbles and those who survive the attack on the nation are left to wander and survive the best they can. It is a standard dystopian novel in most aspects, but it...
by Stephen Febick | Jul 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry
To say that Weldon Kees is an obscure poet is an understatement – outside of the poetry world you won’t find anyone who’s heard of him, and even in poetry circles he is something of an obscurity. Yet he was a peer of Robert Lowell’s and right there in...
by Stephen Febick | May 5, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Humor, Sponsored
Set deep in the Midwest, This self-published title from PJ Colando is a strange mix of things. It has Americana in its pages about football games, farming, large gatherings, and church. Yet it pushes some strange boundary introducing themes of marijuana and baking....
by Stephen Febick | Apr 17, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Paul Auster is a madman. His first novel in seven years, 4 3 2 1, is nearly 900 pages and is narratively a never-ending ocean of stories featuring dozens of characters. 4 3 2 1 gives us four simultaneous yet different narratives genetically connected by one life. To...
