Happy book birthday to The Undead Truth of Us! debut novel explores love, zombi…

[ad_1] Happy book birthday to The Undead Truth of Us! @britney.s.lewis’ debut novel explores love, zombies, and everything in between. . Get it now at the link in our bio. . About the book: Death was everywhere. They all stared at me, bumping into one another and slowly coming forward. Sixteen-year-old Zharie Young is absolutely … Read more

The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener

The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener

[ad_1] After a fraught, improbably long life, a post-apocalyptic archivist resigned to cataloging ephemera from the “old world” times finds his life upended by an orphaned girl. . .   The magazine is called Antic: The Atari Resource. It was published in 1984, but it’s in perfect condition—or as close to it as can be … Read more

Occluded Realities in “The Circumference of the World” – Chicago Review of Books

Occluded Realities in “The Circumference of the World” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Though a fairly slender book, and a compelling read, Lavie Tidhar’s The Circumference of the World is difficult to summarize—a stream of stories and events flowing into each other like a Möbius strip. Delia Welegtabit, a mathematician, reflects on her island childhood in Vanuatu and hires a rare book dealer to track down her … Read more

Bodies and Open Spaces in “Wound” – Chicago Review of Books

Bodies and Open Spaces in “Wound” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In the early pages of Oksana Vasyakina’s Wound, the narrator finds herself tucked into a small car with distant acquaintances in a small town outside Volgograd, on her way to pick up her mother’s ashes, where she cannot help but overhear her companions’ conversation: “The cousin said that Western propaganda had gotten really shameless. … Read more

A Conversation with RS Deeren – Chicago Review of Books

A Conversation with RS Deeren – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] I vividly remember a moment when someone in one of my writing workshops described my writing as “blue collar” because I was writing about my father’s work as a Chicago firefighter. Until then, I had always viewed my upbringing as comfortably middle class. My parents worked incredibly hard and sacrificed often in order to … Read more