Tatiaana L. Laine
Prose Roundup
By Erin Heath, Ben Mirov, Tatiaana Laine, and Primwatee GrooverA.B. Yehoshua’s Friendly Fire is a story of a long married couple. Amotz (Ya’ari) is an engineer tending to the needs of his children, grandchildren, and elderly father, while his wife, Daniella, is in East Africa mourning the death of her older sister.
TOKENS
By Tatiaana Laine and Mark Du MezErica Abeel, Conscience Point; Rikki Ducornet, The One Marvelous Thing.
TOKENS
By Tatiaana Laine, Renee E. D'Aoust, Nils Stolpe, Cody Upton, and Amber BenhamOn September 15th 1959, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev was greeted by President Eisenhower and a 21-gun-salute at Andrews Air Force Base. Crowds predictably gathered in Washington in anticipation as the two leaders were driven into the city.
TOKENS
By Nicolle Elizabeth, Tatiaana L. Laine, Michael Cohn-Geltner, and Jon Dozier-EzellCentering on the racial turmoil in Mississippi in the early 1960’s, The Queen of Palmyra carries its reader from Millwood, Mississippi in early summer 1963—that fateful summer of Medgar Evars’s assassination—through the destruction and confusion of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
The Craigslist Murders: A Satire
By Tatiaana L. LaineBrenda Cullerton’s The Craigslist Murders: A Satire is a fun metasatire, mocking the books that mock all supposedly shallow, rich urbanites. “Look at how crazy rich people are! Look at all this crap they buy! See how detached they are from reality?!
MEMOIR
Roots Music
By Tatiaana L. Laine
The literature world is full of funny, male authors who tell about the struggles of being a die-hard music fan, or musician, in a world full of lukewarm listeners. Gentlemen, make way for Alina Simone.
Pompous Circumstance
By Tatiaana L. LaineDogma, Lars Iyer’s sequel to 2011’s Spurious, based on his eponymous blog, has us meeting up again with our favorite drunken, misguided British intellectuals, narrator Lars and his friend/critic, W.
FICTION
The Invisible Woman
By Tatiaana L. Laine
Anne-Marie Kinney brings us a first novel that initially seems hollow, another empty tale of office work in America. However, Radio Iris soon shifts into a portrait of a young woman struggling to remain present in a world that seems to disappear before her eyes—family, co-workers, even an elusive office neighbor.
Tokens
By Tatiaana Laine, Jon Curley, and Ray AbernathyJohn Wray (Canaan’s Tongue) delivers another fast-paced novel which takes us through the New York City subway system, tracking a schizophrenic sixteen-year-old boy who, like many of the city’s paranoid residents, believes he has been made privy to information about a pending apocalypse.
TOKENS
By Dawn Raffel, Suzanne Reisman, Dawn Raffel, Vanessa Neumann, Peter Morris, and Tatiaana L. LaineBlake Butler is part of a generation of authors who publish both in print and online as a means of entering a literary dialogue, paying respect to old ways by doing tremendous things with the new.
Prose Roundup
By Erin Heath, Ben Mirov, Tatiaana Laine, Ken Murray, Gary Lain, Lara Tupper, Clinton Krute, and Zoe SlutzkyHaruki Murakami, Hannah Tinti, Robert Goolrick, Tao Lin, Harold Jaffe, Amanda Petrusich, Stephanie Kuehnert, Sarah Shun-lien Bunum
Don Juan: His Own Version
By Tatiaana L. LainePeter Handke brings us an interesting look at the apparently oft-misunderstood legend of Don Juan. We as readers are granted access to the sensitive side of this legendary womanizer by the narrator, a slightly depressed chef and innkeeper whose business is less than thriving in the French countryside where he makes Don Juan’s acquaintance.
Prose Roundup
By Ben Mirov, Mayra David, Jackson Taylor, and Tatiaana LaineFull of innovative stylistic flourishes and classic noir motifs, Abraham Rodriguez’s new crime novel South by South Bronx is infused with the right balance of new and old.
TOKENS
By Dan Fall, Tatiaana L. Laine, Helena Fitzgerald, and Kenneth SchneyerThe book jacket of A Life on Paper calls Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud “France’s own Kurt Vonnegut.” But during my brooding, meandering tour through this first English collection of his work, it was not Vonnegut’s glee that Châteaureynaud showed me.
Dynamic Duo
By Tatiaana L. LaineLars Iyer’s Spurious, based on the popular blog http://spurious.typepad.com, brings us into the relationship between the narrator, Lars, and his former professor, W.
