Josh Olsen’s new fiction collection “Six Months” is available now from Tainted Coffee Press.(info). Reviewed for Full Of Crow by Lynn Alexander. I met Josh Olsen recently in Toledo where we read together at the Zygote In My Fez poetry festival at the Collingwood Arts Center. I was already impressed, having read some of his [...]
“All Her Father’s Guns”, by James Warner. Reviewed for Full of Crow by Paul Corman-Roberts. HIJINX FOR A SAD AND DECLINING EMPIRE 2011, Numina Press, 190 pp. Ostensibly a madcap political caper with two narrators, James Warner’s debut novel “All Her Father’s Guns” is in fact the story of two men who are desperately seeking [...]
Richard Godwin reviews “Twenty Stories” by Kristin Fouquet. What immediately struck me as soon as I started reading these excellent stories, is that Kristin Fouquet inhabits the European tradition of literature. She uses detailed and concise description which she has mastered to an unusual degree to conjure characters quickly from the page and render a [...]
Lynn Alexander for Full Of Crow on “Watching The Windows Sleep”, a chapbook produced by Naissance, written by Tantra Bensko. A review by Spencer Dew appeared in decomp in January as well and you can check that out here. Find out more on Tantra Bensko at her website and at Naissance Press: Official Tantra Bensko [...]
Marc Lowe’s collection of fiction, “Sui Generis” from ISMs Press, reviewed for Full Of Crow by Lynn Alexander. “Sui Generis” And Other Fictions is a digital collection (e-book) available now from ISMs Press. It contains 23 stories that Lowe identifies as being written while he was living in Japan from 2004 to 2006. The stories [...]
“Charactered Pieces” by Caleb J. Ross, reviewed by Lynn Alexander. “Charactered Pieces” is the second publication of the new Outsider Writers Press. It follows David Blaine’s poetry chapbook “Antisocial” as their second release. Ross delivers exactly what you have come to expect from him: smart layers of fiction with thematically related elements. We see attention [...]