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Review: FROM OLD NOTEBOOKS by Evan Lavender-Smith

by Black Warrior Review | Feb 10, 2014 | Archive, Reviews

From Old Notebooks Evan Lavender-Smith 2010 BlazeVOX Books 178 pages Review by STEPHEN THOMAS Evan Lavender-Smith’s From Old Notebooks is a conceptual book that would like to think it’s hiding a living, breathing, narrative heart; and it basically is, I...

Review: DANIEL FIGHTS A HURRICANE by Shane Jones

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 28, 2013 | Archive, Reviews

Daniel Fights a Hurricane Shane Jones 2012 Penguin Books 224 pages Review by ERIN L. MILLER The unfolding of Shane Jones’s newest novel Daniel Fights a Hurricane ultimately hinges on fear—specifically, protagonist Daniel Suppleton’s fear of a hurricane wiping out the...

Review: SARAH/SARA by Jacob Paul

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 15, 2010 | Archive, Reviews

Sarah/Sara Jacob Paul 2010 Ig Publishing 200 pages Review by RACHEL ADAMS At a cozy brewpub in Salt Lake City, Utah, I share a pitcher of beer with author Jacob Paul. He has just handed me an advance copy of his new book, Sarah/Sara, and the discussion turns to a...

Review: TOKYO BAY TRAFFIC by Cecile Rossant

by Black Warrior Review | Sep 21, 2010 | Archive, Reviews

Tokyo Bay Traffic Cecile Rossant 2007 Red Hen Press 164 pages Review by MIKE WALONEN Cecile Rossant’s Tokyo Bay Traffic (Red Hen Press, 2008) shifts kaleidoscopically in narrative focus, providing a panoramic view of a surreal, hyperreal Tokyo defined by sex,...