Focus: Short Story Collections — May-June 2005
nina2022-07-20T19:00:47+00:00Reviews of books by Jonathan Baumbach, Toni Graham, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, Vestal McInytre, and Kevin McIlvoy.
Reviews of books by Jonathan Baumbach, Toni Graham, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, Vestal McInytre, and Kevin McIlvoy.
Reviews of chapbooks from Adastra Press, Finishing Line Press, and Belladonna.
Reviews of prose poetry / flash fiction journals and books by new poets from the United States and Great Britain.
Tributes to ABR editor Ronald Sukenick from Joe Amato, Mark Amerika, Raymond Federman, Charles B. Harris, Cris Mazza, Richard Konstelanetz, and more.
America needs an alternative to the corporate-run political system, just as it needs alternatives to the corporate-controlled book industry.
"Writing of the South" offers an astonishing variety of voices and modes of writing: from formal to experimental, from revealingly personal to searchingly political.
The threat to creative writing programs is not realism or modernism or postmodernism, but of a place where one tradition is the tradition.
Reviews of poetry books and chapbooks available free of charge on the Internet.
Because of their inherent financial risk, first books have also become the increased responsibility of independent presses.
First books of poetry can seem like a genre unto itself—at their best, raw and exciting, hinting at the genius to come.
No thing is inherently original. "Originality" is an award we bestow on upon those works of art that remind us the least of what came before them.
ABR's focus is on books published by independent presses, but what about authors publishing serious, genre-bending fiction through conglomerate publishers?
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