Note: The book reviewed depicts the killing of animals. Plot: This horror novel is an absurdist, nightmarish, magical-realistic take on fine arts higher education. And some other stuff. The reader immediately sympathizes with Samantha, a second-year MFA student at elite—ahem—Warren University somewhere in New England. She remains an outsider in her Workshop program. The fourContinue reading “Review of “Bunny” by Mona Awad”
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Review of “The Iron Woman” by Margaret Deland
Plot: Set some decades before the turn of the twentieth century, this follows the lives of four children who grow up in fictional Mercer, Ohio-ish, a stand-in for the author’s own hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, then an ironworks hub. The iron woman of the title is Sarah Maitland, mother and stepmother of two of theContinue reading “Review of “The Iron Woman” by Margaret Deland”
Reviews of Old and New Stories. Mostly Old 