Love Among the Particles – Norman Lock
Calling attention to the artificiality of his creation gives Lock (and us) the chance to consider what actually determines the “real.”
View ArticleUnknowable Quantities
Where much of the horror genre frantically casts a flashlight around the area between the known and the unknown, Brian Evenson's stories are more concerned with the knowable and the unknowable. They...
View ArticleScott McClanahan
It's that weird ghost of electricity in the faces of the people you love.
View ArticleWatch The Thrones
Lord of the Rings allows me to escape my limited perspective for another world; A Song of Ice and Fire forces me to be acutely aware of that limited perspective, and to evaluate it in relation to the...
View ArticleDuplex – Kathryn Davis
Davis’s sentences channel that half-state between consciousness and unconsciousness, that foggy place where you realize you’re waking up but are still enraptured by the vivid imagery that’s been...
View ArticleReading at Record Speeds
Having outside information easily available means I’m going to reference it, which in turn means I’m interrupting the actual text of the novel regularly to seek out more information on that...
View ArticleHill WIlliam – Scott McClanahan
An attempt to physically break the memories out from the lockbox in his head, pain be damned.
View ArticleSilence Once Begun – Jesse Ball
Essentially, Ball poses the question: "Can any of us can truly know ourselves, let alone the others around us?"
View ArticleThe Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
What I had thought was going to be a fairly standard teenage narrative was obviously going somewhere else entirely.
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