On the last day of her month-long sojourn, Bookslut’s Jessa Crispin listens to the latest Slate Book Club podcast and tries to choke back a wave of yellow bile.
Calvin Baker’s strangely neglected Dominion is one of the books I admired most this year. I understand that a novel so allusive, in which invocations of myth abound and the richness of language recalls the King James, isn’t going to appeal to everyone. But I look at some of the hyped-up claptrap that has critics pulling out their trumpets this . . .
Eyeshot and Mississippi Review, two personal favorites, make Shauna McKenna’s list of best online fiction and poetry venues.