Becoming Alive in Death, as Examined in “Life of the Party” and “Dreaming of You” – Chicago Review of Books

Becoming Alive in Death, as Examined in “Life of the Party” and “Dreaming of You” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In the acknowledgments of the novel Dreaming of You, author Melissa Lozada-Oliva includes the following credit: “Thank you Olivia Gatwood, for being so obsessed with dead girls & dying with me.” At this point in her career, such an expression of gratitude is no surprise; poets Lozada-Oliva and Gatwood’s work have been integrally intertwined … 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