For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] Bronx-born, Miami-based Andrew Boryga was working on his debut novel…but something wasn’t working. He knew his main characters like the back of his hand, but he was still struggling to find the plot of the novel. Rather than continue to look within, he looked around to society—and realized a lot of what he saw … Read more
[ad_1] In Elizabeth McKenzie’s rollicking new novel Dog of the North, a woman named Penny is contacted by a man named Burt Lampey, who claims to be her grandmother Dr. Pincer’s accountant. When Burt asks Penny to help him evacuate her grandmother from her home in Santa Barbara, Penny agrees to— she’s recently suffered a … Read more
[ad_1] It’s Not Nothing is the kind of novel that you can’t help but to savor. Every sentence, every turn of phrase is liable to catch you off guard—knock you off center—crack you up or kill you. In it, protagonist Rosemary Candwell shuffles in and out of bars, hourly jobs, and institutions, trying to grasp … Read more
[ad_1] Bud Smith is kind of a legend. The Jersey City writer has been publishing since 2009, but has been writing for much longer. Under his belt he’s got a story collection (Double Bird, Maudlin House), a poetry collaboration with his wife, Rae Buleri (Dust Bunny City, Disorder Press), a memoir (WORK, Civil Coping Mechanisms), … Read more
[ad_1] Translation—the conveyance of ideas, sentences, a story, a feeling, from one language to another—is inherently contradictory: be as exact as possible, or risk failing at the act. But since the transference of meaning is something so subjective, so tied to cultural and social cues, one could argue “exact” is impossible. Translation becomes its own … Read more
[ad_1] At a virtual reading hosted by Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida, moderated by writer Chantel Acevedo, David Sanchez is asked a question about the role of nature in his fiction, particularly the lush and gasping sort you find in South Florida, of which he often writes. Sanchez thinks about it for a … Read more
[ad_1] Vanessa Jimenez Gabb’s second full-length collection of poetry, Basic Needs, is a love letter in three movements, written as the Brooklyn poet watches capitalist America in slow and seeping collapse with a steady, unflinching eye. The collection is not an elegy for this moment in time, but rather an homage to the lives built … Read more