Searching for Memory’s Rightful Place in “Oh God, the Sun Goes” – Chicago Review of Books

Searching for Memory’s Rightful Place in “Oh God, the Sun Goes” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The debut novel of David Connor, Oh God, The Sun Goes, takes audiences on a cerebral ride—both literally and figuratively—journeying within a story that could sit comfortably on the shelf of multiple genres. From mystery to science fiction, to biological place fiction (if such a thing exists), Connor flexes his creativity and cognitive neuroscience … Read more

Mapping the Interior by Proceeding through the Exterior in “A Flat Place” – Chicago Review of Books

Mapping the Interior by Proceeding through the Exterior in “A Flat Place” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Memoirs have sometimes been considered a form of fiction, not as false accounts but by being enriched with the layering of symbols, place, and affable narration. Noreen Masud’s A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma picks up these tools and employs them to full effect, as she takes the reader further … Read more

Place, History, and Mythmaking in “Homestead” – Chicago Review of Books

Place, History, and Mythmaking in “Homestead” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Melinda Moustakis’ fiction is an expert tutorial in braiding a story’s environment with its characters’ paths, as much as it is an unveiling of how that braid is not a braid at all but an inseparability, place inextricable from human life. In her debut collection, Bear Down, Bear North, which won the Flannery O’Connor … Read more