Jacob Hammer's Review of The One Inside
The One Inside by Sam Shepard Reviewed by Jacob Hammer I had only previously encountered Sam Shepard as a playwright in my literature...
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- Feb 19, 2018
- 2 min
Jacob Hammer's Review of The One Inside
The One Inside by Sam Shepard Reviewed by Jacob Hammer I had only previously encountered Sam Shepard as a playwright in my literature...
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- Feb 1, 2018
- 4 min
Santino DallaVecchia's Review of Water Fragments
Water Fragments. Catie Hannigan. Tammy, 2017. Print. 40 pages. $13.00. Available at tammyjournal.com. Review by Santino DallaVecchia....
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- Jan 14, 2018
- 4 min
Jacob Hammer's Review of The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas Reviewed by Jacob Hammer Someone described this book briefly months ago and made it seem...
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- Nov 23, 2017
- 3 min
Review of Patient Zero by Tomas Q. Morin, Reviewed by Santino DallaVecchia
Patient Zero. Tomás Q. MorÃn. Copper Canyon Press, April 2017. ISBN: 978-1556594939. Print. 96 pages. $16.00. Review by Santino...
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- Nov 17, 2017
- 4 min
The Swimmer Reviewed by Jacob Hammer
The Swimmer by Zsuzsa Banks (translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo) Reviewed by Jacob Hammer I picked up this book not entirely knowing...
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- Nov 13, 2017
- 3 min
Review of Fantasy as a Means of Revelation and Justice: Eve L. Ewing’s Electric Arches
Fantasy as a Means of Revelation and Justice: Eve L. Ewing’s Electric Arches Reviewed by Santino DallaVecchia I’ve come across a few...
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- Sep 29, 2017
- 4 min
The Minor Outsider Review
The Minor Outsider by Ted McDermott Reviewed by Jacob Hammer Todd McDermott's debut novel, The Minor Outsider, is an engaging downward...
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- Sep 8, 2017
- 3 min
Review of Our Lady of the Ruins
Poems of the Vague Apocalypse: Traci Brimhall’s Our Lady of the Ruins In her sophomore collection, Our Lady of the Ruins, Traci Brimhall...
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- Aug 28, 2017
- 3 min
A Line Made by Walking Reviewed by Jacob Hammer
A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume Reviewed by Jacob Hammer Sara Baume presents in her second novel a book that gives its readers a...
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- Aug 14, 2017
- 3 min
Review of Portrait of an Alcoholic
Desire & Disquiet: Kaveh Akbar’s Portrait of the Alcoholic Review by Santino DallaVecchia Since Kaveh Akbar’s debut full-length...
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- Jul 26, 2017
- 4 min
Omar El Akkad's American War Review by Jacob Hammer
American War by Omar El Akkad Reviewed by Jacob Hammer This book is one of the most imaginative that I have read in some time. When I...
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- Jul 24, 2017
- 2 min
Review of Vievee Francis' Forest Primeval: Delving Into the Obscured World
Vievee Francis’ Forest Primeval: Delving Into the Obscured World Review by: Santino DallaVecchia Vievee Francis’ third collection, Forest...
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- Jun 22, 2017
- 4 min
Our Endless Numbered Days Review
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller Reviewed by Jacob Hammer  This time I was drawn to the book not by the cover but just by its...
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- Jun 19, 2017
- 2 min
Review of Marie Howe's Magdalena by Santino DallaVecchia
Marie Howe’s Magdalene: the Voice, the Mystery, the Language I’d been excited to see Marie Howe was releasing something new since I saw a...
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- May 19, 2017
- 5 min
Pull Me Under Review
Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce Reviewed by Jacob Hammer  The first thing that drew me to this book was, naturally, the cover. The black...
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- Apr 14, 2017
- 5 min
Swamplandia! Review
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell Reviewed by Jacob Hammer At first I was a bit skeptical about this book. If I’m being honest, it was...
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- Mar 17, 2017
- 3 min
History of Wolves Review
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund Reviewed by Jacob Hammer I had been thinking about reading this book for a while. When it came out...
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- Feb 17, 2017
- 3 min
Grief is the Thing with Feathers Review
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Reviewed by Jacob Hammer I first encountered this book as I was choosing something to...
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- Jan 19, 2017
- 4 min
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Review
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Reviewed by Jacob Hammer This book had been on my mind for a month or so before I...
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- Dec 17, 2016
- 6 min
The Golden Notebook Review
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Reviewed by Jacob Hammer One of my friends had recommended this book for a couple of years before I...
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- Sep 8, 2016
- 3 min
Sweet Thing Review
Sweet Thing by Renée Carlino Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief When words fail, music speaks. Sweet Thing by Reneé Carlino is a...
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- Aug 18, 2016
- 4 min
Afterworlds Review
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief. “Maybe the trick was not to panic. In life, as in the...
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- Aug 4, 2016
- 3 min
The Winner's Curse Review
The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief I love to read novels like Marie Rutkoski’s fantasy YA...
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- Jul 28, 2016
- 4 min
Farming of Bones Review
Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief For those of you who have never read Edwidge Danticat’s...
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- Jul 21, 2016
- 3 min
Vampire Academy Review
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief Being a borderline crazy book lover, I’m also a devoted...
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- Jul 14, 2016
- 3 min
Beautiful Disaster Review
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief In Jamie McGuire’s new adult romance novel Beautiful...
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- Jul 8, 2016
- 4 min
Between the Lines Review
Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult & Samantha Van Leer Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief One sentence…that’s all it takes. Jodi...
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- Jun 16, 2016
- 3 min
Saint Anything Review
Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief Sarah Dessen once said that when she was in her young adult...
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- Jun 9, 2016
- 4 min
Throne of Glass Review
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief I’ve come to understand that a reader’s sole motive in...
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- Jun 2, 2016
- 4 min
Nowhere but Here Review
Nowhere but Here by Renée Carlino Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief There are a few books that somehow—maybe through fate’s...
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- May 26, 2016
- 4 min
"These Shallow Graves" Review
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly Reviewed by Taylor Beach, Editor-in-Chief If I possessed the power, I would make billions of...
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- Apr 18, 2016
- 2 min
Introductions
A note from the Owner: In the episode "Turn Left" in the fourth season of the British Sci-Fi series Doctor Who, the show presents two...
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