Ian J. Battaglia

It all starts with a sentence. “Her name was Magda.” Then three more. “Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is … Read More

Over the past few months, most of us have felt our plans for the future slip out of reach. Perhaps, like me, you too have … Read More

I’m not sure if books have the power to change minds, let alone the world. Nor do I buy into the power of books or … Read More

In Fracture, Spanish-Argentine writer Andrés Neuman manages to merge disaster, memory, and distance into a single cohesive map. Tracing the flow of time, tragedies both … Read More

It’s Japan, right around 1990. Three college guys go to meet three college girls at a small diner. One, named Ryusei, becomes smitten with a … Read More

Shaun Prescott’s The Town is meta from the start. It concerns a wannabe writer who has taken up residence in a desolate town in the … Read More

Jac Jemc, author of the story collection False Bingo from MCD x FSG, was a writer from the start. She told her third-grade teacher her … Read More