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☞ Devin Jacobsen's The Summer We Ate Off the China in The Big Issue
Patrick Maxwell on Devin Jacobsen’s stories:
“If for nothing else, you should read Devin Jacobsen’s short story collection The Summer We Ate Off the China for its wonderful prose…. We are in a similar, slightly deranged world to the early stories of Will Self. The grains of the ordinary are inverted and perverted…. This is a book about language and its power, and the more enjoyable and interesting for it.”
—Patrick Maxwell, in The Big Issue
☞ Devin Jacobsen's The Summer We Ate Off the China in the Times-Picayune
A review of Devin Jacobsen’s The Summer We Ate Off the China:
“[Devin Jacobsen has a] willingness to experiment. He’s not afraid to take out the English language for rambling country drives, his excursions sometimes touched by hairpin turns…. Perhaps no one since John Kennedy Toole has marshaled such a menagerie of characters and settings to tell a tale.”
—Danny Heitman, in The Times-Picayune
☞ David Collard's A Crumpled Swan in Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly chimes in about David Collard’s upcoming A Crumpled Swan:
“[Collard’s] meticulous exegesis illustrates how even a brief poem can contain untold layers of meaning. It’s a rousing celebration of the power of literature.”
☞ Devin Jacobsen's The Summer We Ate Off the China in the Village Voice
In the Village Voice, A review of Devin Jacobsen’s The Summer We Ate Off the China:
“A terrific collection—wide, deep, and way hipper than John Irving. Jacobsen writes about big issues and small towns, but he always writes beautifully…. a writer worth discovering.”
—Gideon Leek, in The Village Voice
☞ David Collard's A Crumpled Swan in Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews on David Collard’s forthcoming collection of fifty essays on poetry, A Crumpled Swan:
“50 brief, illuminating essays melding memoir, close reading, literary analysis, and cultural criticism…. Collard’s insightful essays reveal him, as well, as a sympathetic presence, sensitive and wise. Fresh, perceptive literary essays.”
☞ C.J. Spataro's More Strange Than True in Write Now Philly
In Write Now Philly, Ronan Brinkley “explores ownership vs. love” in C.J. Spataro’s More Strange Than True:
“Short, strange and sweet, More Strange Than True will break your heart and sew it back together again.”
—Ronan Brinkley, in Write Now Philly
☞ Kat Meads on Writing While Visiting Babette
Books by Women has published an essay by Kat Meads about writing her novella, While Visiting Babette:
“Not to give too much of the plot away: someone does try to escape in While Visiting Babette. And that someone succeeds.”
☞ Merrill Joan Gerber's Revelation at the Food Bank in Hippocampus
Plaudits for Merrill Joan Gerber’s essays in Hippocampus Magazine:
“A pleasure to read…. Her own fine writing makes each essay a jewel, packed with delicious turns of phrase.”
—Vicky Mayk, in Hippocampus Magazine