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Our October Brazos Best: RETURN TO THE DARK VALLEY
Colombian author Santiago Gamboa is that rarest of writers; a literary author who also writes riveting, globe-spanning thrillers. I first discovered him through his novel NECROPOLIS, a novel bursting...
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Mark Reviews Jon Fosse's BOATHOUSE
Welcome to our first #BrazosBest of 2018: Jon Fosse's BOATHOUSE.There’s nothing quite like the discovery of a new voice.Jon Fosse, the Norwegian novelist and playwright is one such example. Although...
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Yoko Tawada and the Strange Hopefulness of Disaster
Yoko Tawada is a spectacular writer of both Japanese and German, and has received iconic literary prizes in both places (Akutagawa Prize, Goethe Medal, and more). She writes across genres and...
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Mark Reviews Bernardo Esquinca’s THE OWLS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM
Although he’s had more than seven books (novels and story collections) published in Spanish, THE OWLS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM is Bernardo Esquinca’s first collection in English. In a gorgeous bilingual...
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Mapping Home: Fatimah Asghar's IF THEY COME FOR US
Guest Article by: AlexisPoet Fatimah Asghar has written a substantial amount of striking and intimate work in her debut collection If They Come for Us. In this collection, Asghar digs into themes of...
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Bend What's Expected: Bao Phi's THOUSAND STAR HOTEL
Guest Article by: Ching-In ChenThousand Star Hotel, Bao Phi’s powerful second collection of poetry, wrestles with inheritance and lineage – the devastation of war, poverty, racism and the costs of...
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Dust, Light, and Air: Alexis Reviews Jeffrey Yang's HEY, MARFA
Guest Article by: AlexisJeffrey Yang’s Hey, Marfa presents a multifaceted look at the tiny, West Texas town of Marfa, a self-referential art town that thrives on aesthetic and feeds philosophical...
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Laura Reviews THE DREAMERS by Karen Thompson Walker
Everything is heightened in a crisis. The way we interact with people changes. We become fiercely protective of those we love. We act selfishly or selflessly. Fear, grief, and loneliness become...
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Laura M Reviews Maria Popova's FIGURING
Maria Popova is the author, curator, and brain child behind the blog Brain Pickings: a cultural treasure trove of the thoughts, letters, and life’s work of some of history’s greatest thinkers. Most...
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Lyric Reviews G by Emmalea Russo
Emmalea Russo’s G is doing several things at once.By employing a hemispheric division, creating borders reminiscent of a hem, the poems’ form resembles, on one side, a raised garden bed. On the facing...
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Lyric Reviews MUSLIM: A NOVEL
Zahia Rahmani's "Muslim: A Novel" is at its core a warning of the danger and violence of distilling human life down to a single identity label: religion, gender, or nationality. It also warns against...
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