An Inverse Mirroring of the Frame in “Mouth to Mouth” – Chicago Review of Books

An Inverse Mirroring of the Frame in “Mouth to Mouth” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Like Gone Girl, Antoine Wilson’s Mouth to Mouth is a thriller titled after its inciting incident.  It’s the early nineties, and Jeff Cook, an aimless recent college graduate saves the life of a drowning swimmer off of Santa Monica beach by diving into the surf and performing CPR on the man. Though he doesn’t … Read more

A Long-Awaited Return in “Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost” – Chicago Review of Books

A Long-Awaited Return in “Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In the summer of 2007, a short story by a young Korean-American writer named David Hoon Kim appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. It was Kim’s first published work of fiction. This auspicious beginning is normally the stuff of literary legend, about as straight-line a course for a book deal as a … Read more