Editor's Note
This Saturday, April 25th, will be the 13th Annual Independent Bookstore Day. Stores around the U.S. are planning special events for the occasion, so check the national map for a participating store near you — or see our list of Tennessee bookstores for destinations here in the 16th state.
Today at the site, Sean Kinch reviews the latest story collection by Irish writer Colm Tóibín, The News from Dublin. In these stories, Sean writes, “Tóibín is grappling with death — how it’s experienced, how it’s grieved, and what it means.”
Bradley Sides considers Ellen Morris Prewitt’s “rambunctious” novel When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women, which combines “action, violence, humor, and heart” in a narrative that “features twists and turns aplenty, with much movement — fast movement — across time and space.”
In her review of Patrick Strickland’s debut story collection, A History of Heartache, Emily Choate writes that Strickland’s stories “bear the mark of a journalist’s eye for detail and offer a sense of immersion into multilayered cultural dilemmas, but they always unfold like fiction rather than reportage. … His people must navigate systemic minefields on their way to relief from pain or poverty.”
News Roundup
- Kristen Iversen, Edgar Kunz, and Christoph Irmscher are among this year’s Guggenheim Fellows.
- An excerpt from Christopher Hebert’s forthcoming novel Delivery appeared at Literary Hub.
- Erica Wright wrote about the allure of occult mysteries in CrimeReads.
- Jay McInerney’s See You on the Other Side was reviewed in The New York Times.
- Silas House and Alan Gratz revealed the covers of their forthcoming books.
