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  • Buzzed Books #81: Alyson Hagy’s Scribe

    Buzzed Books #81 by Drew Barth Alyson Hagy’s Scribe Let’s talk about magic realism. Magic realism is kind of odd and nebulous in how it behaves, but a reader always knows it when they see it. Magic realism gives off a feeling of being immersed,  being familiar and yet not. These senses all come together Continue reading

  • Buzzed Books #80: Jason Heller’s Strange Stars

    Buzzed Books #80 by Drew Barth Jason Heller’s Strange Stars Stars, man. Also, Starman. We can bring in the 70s music scene with the crippling depression of the Altamont Free Concert, or with a blast of cosmic literature radiation that would seep its way into popular culture throughout the decade. And this explosion of new Continue reading

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  • Buzzed Books #79: Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix

    Buzzed Books #79 by Drew Barth Rich Tommaso’s Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix (Collects Issues 1-4) Let’s talk about adventure comics. While DC Comics published their own, titled Adventure Comics in kind with Action and Detective, the realm of adventure comics as a genre is uniquely European. Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, the various works of Jacques Continue reading

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  • Buzzed Books #78: Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer

    Buzzed Books #78 by Drew Barth Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer Consider the elephant. Consider what you know about its form and presence, for that is the first thing the reader is asked to do in Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer. We are given a picture of a sculpture by Rembrandt Bugatti, famed sculptor and Continue reading

  • Buzzed Books #77: Melissa Broder’s The Pisces

    Buzzed Books #77 by Drew Barth Melissa Broder’s The Pisces Let’s talk about mermen. They’re old lore. More or less. We’re all familiar with the general structure of a person with human bits on top and fish bits further down. But that’s just the myth, and myths aren’t the whole story. The backstory for The Continue reading

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  • Buzzed Books #76: Because Everything is Terrible

    Buzzed Books #76 by Will Rincon Because Everything is Terrible by Paul Guest Paul Guest’s fourth poetry collection, Because Everything is Terrible, wastes no time pulling the reader into his world. “First this happened: you woke in a dim glade, / pine trees leaning in, all around.” The twenty-two-page opening poem, “After Damascus” is broken into thirteen Continue reading

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  • Buzzed Books #75: Convenience Store Woman

    Buzzed Books #75 by Drew Barth Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman There’s familiarity in a convenience store. Safety, even. We walk into a convenience store and have certain expectations about what’s likely going to happen. Familiar drinks, chips, candy, hot dogs rolling away. It’s within this familiarity we find Keiko Furukura: thirty-eight year-old part-time convenience Continue reading

  • Buzzed Books #74: The Only Harmless Great Thing

    Buzzed Books #74 by Drew Barth Brooke Bolander’s The Only Harmless Great Thing There aren’t that many books I’ve read that include exploding elephants. There are even fewer books that include exploding elephants that have an emotional impact that hits with the force of an exploding elephant. And yet here we are. The elephant in Continue reading

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  • Buzzed Books #73: Some Hell

    Buzzed Books #73 by Aurora Huiza Patrick Nathan’s Some Hell Patrick Nathan’s novel, Some Hell, opens with terrible secrets. Colin, a young boy troubled by his queerness, secretly watches his father hold an unloaded gun to his head and pull the trigger. Colin later sneaks into his father’s empty study, finds the bullets, and loads the gun Continue reading

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  • Buzzed Books #72: Prism Stalker Vol. 1

    Buzzed Books #72 by Drew Barth Sloane Leong’s Prism Stalker Vol. 1 (Collects Issues 1-5)      The best kind of science fiction is the kind that blends genres, forms, themes, social issues into a stew that heartily sits in a reader’s stomach. It’s this kind of blending that makes Sloane Leong’s solo Image Comics debut Continue reading

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