From the monthly archives: February 2009

A Heaven of Others

On February 22, 2009 By Daniel Elkind

By Joshua Cohen (Starcherone Books, 2008)

A Heaven of Others, Joshua Cohen’s second novel and fourth book of fiction, is a horrifying, terrifying, and instructive account of the wrong heaven in another’s shoes. Real shoes, that is, left forever in a real river of honey following abduction by eagles and a missed [...]

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Logorrhea

On February 15, 2009 By Eric Rosenfield

Edited by John Klima (Bantam Spectra, 2007)

Literary genres are blending together these days, as mainstream writers use tried and true genre elements while genre writers break out into the mainstream world. Still, the concept behind the short-story anthology Logorrhea is odd: Each writer in the [...]

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The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life

On February 1, 2009 By Mordechai Levy-Eichel

By Floyd Skloot (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)

At the age of forty-one, Floyd Skloot was stuck with static dementia, a virally induced brain disease. Unable to write, struggling to grasp simple sentences, not capable of remembering new facts, fitfully recalling old ones, he was in “neurological tatters.” Yet in a blessed [...]

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