From the OWC Community
Ken Wohlrob’s The Love Book explores, appropriately for the title, individuals seeking connection, each equally as maligned and stressed as the relationships they attempt to form. In “The Fetish,” racial fetishism is transposed when a man with self-diagnosed Yellow Fever dates an Asian obsessed with New Jersey guidos. In “No Matter How Small You...
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A Bradley Sands story is not like any story you’ve read before. Though his work carries a noticeable Steve Aylett influence, Sands dismisses even the implied logic of his own creation, opting not to utilize his and Aylett’s stylistic contradictions for the sake of full narrative, instead insisting on delivering at the line-by-line level.
Sands,...
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Some readers act for the rhythm of the language, the aesthetics of the words. Some act for the story itself, for the characters, not the depictions of them. Scott McClanahan’s Stories II falls into the extreme latter camp. In this, McClanahan’s second collection from Six Gallery Press (after 2008’s Stories I, reviewed at OWC...
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Reviewed by David Blaine
In Scott C. Rogers’ Celluloid Cowboy you have the story of how Billy Martin, a student of literature, grows a set and comes of age. All in six days. All in Detroit, Michigan.
This book is a classic page-turner. Among many other things, Rogers really knows how to advance a plot. Some...
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Matthew DeBenedictis is a master of menace. And he’s also a master of humor. Perhaps, “Matt DeBenedictis is a master of menacing humor,” is the best way to put it. Or maybe he’s simply a master. And he is also awesome.
When I received my copy of There’s No Last Place if Everyone is...
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