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Robin Wasserman’s novel Girls on Fire tells the story of three high school girls stuck in a dead-end small town in Pennsylvania in 1991 in which a high school basketball star shot himself in …
Two writers discuss Robin Wasserman’s electrifying Girls on Fire.
By Dorothy Ross Reading Aloud Reading aloud is becoming a lost art, seldom indulged between consenting adults. The intimacy of sharing prose in our own voices is rarely enjoyed beyond primary sch…
Do you like to read aloud as an adult?
By David Nilsen Aracelis Girmay’s new poetry collection The Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016) is a perpetually shifting document, one that skirts from one corner of her mind to another, from d…
Our review of Acacelis Girmay’s The Black Maria.
By Katy Goodwin-Bates The raw power of Kiese Laymon’s How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is evident just from the title; if there’s another book named in a more skewering…
Our review of an important new book on race and violence in America.
By Melinda Guerra Lydia Yuknavitch’s most recent novel, The Small Backs of Children, is beautiful, poetic, animal, and disturbing. It is one of the most lyrical pieces of prose I’ve read recently, …
“Lidia Yuknavitch’s most recent novel, The Small Backs of Children, is beautiful, poetic, animal, and disturbing.”
By Katy Goodwin-Bates As a teacher of teenagers, there is one question which I have become used to being asked over and over and over again. Can you guess what it is? I’ll give you a clue: it…
Our review of Patrice Lawrence’s new YA novel Orangeboy.
By David Nilsen I arrived at a connection with Herman Wouk’s writing from an oblique angle, and the connection has remained tenuous. Reader, I’ll be honest, I’ve read none of his …
Our review of Herman Wouk’s Sailor and Fiddler.
By David Nilsen Jennifer Zilm’s debut poetry book Waiting Room (BookThug, 2016) is a curious collection. From Zilm’s disparate roles–Bible student and scholar, dental and mental h…
Our review of Jennifer Zilm’s new collection Waiting Room from Book Thug.
By Katy Goodwin-Bates My exposure to hotel reviews is limited, I’ll admit. Notably, while researching accommodation in Memphis, I encountered one review written by a patron outraged by the fa…
Our lit journal’s review of Rick Moody’s Hotels of North America.
The poems we read in our June meeting of PoetryMatters followed no organizing principle but ran through themes of love, parenting, nature, social responsibility, and much more. We read poems by Ton…
Our PoetryMatters poetry reading group will be meeting for the last time on July 22.
By Jonathan Bishop Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief is a meditation on time—how it shatters or enriches relationships, how it causes us to reflect, how it always propels us toward our end. It…
Our review of Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole.
By David Nilsen History wants to hurt you. Cynthia Cruz asserts this in the opening poem of How the End Begins, her new poetry collection from Four Way Books. She speaks with the insulated prescrip…
Our review of How the End Begins by Cynthia Cruz from @fourwaybooks
By Katy Goodwin-Bates For just a moment, let’s forget that old adage about never judging a book by its cover and consider the glorious artwork which introduces Julie Murphy’s Dumplin…
Our review of Julie Murphy’s Dumplin’.
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Fourth & Sycamore reviewed some great books this month!
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By Katy Goodwin-Bates Tuesday Nights in 1980 opens in a Buenos Aires bakery, as Franca Engales Morales hurries to close up before attending a clandestine meeting of dissidents. Prentiss’ prol…
Our review of Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss, which has the awesomest cover we’ve seen this year.
By Katy Goodwin-Bates I have a mixed track record with really long books. While I have repeatedly tried to read War and Peace and never made it past the first few chapters, I have read (and, frankl…
“ You may be wondering what City on Fire is actually about; while reading it, I occasionally wondered the same thing. “
Libraries are for everyone. Our journal was born (and is still run) from a public library in Ohio, and public libraries exist to provide books and services to every individual regardless of race, g…
An important post from our literary journal about diverse representation in their book reviews and author interviews. Please take a moment to read.