Category Archives: Modern Literary Fiction
Songs by Honeybird – Peter McDade
(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) #CommissionsEarned “Find your focus and the story may write itself: music and drugs, race and gender, a tragic barn fire and a missing body. It’s all much more dramatic than one usually sees in a dissertation….” … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction, Our Best, Romance
Tagged friendship, history, music, philosophy, Romance, sexism
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Rose Royal: A Love Story- Nicolas Mathieu (Translated from the French by Sam Taylor)
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Looking back over all those men, all those failed relationships, she came to one conclusion. She should never have loved them as much as she … Continue reading
Posted in French Literature, Modern Literary Fiction, Noir-esque fiction, Skinny reads
Tagged French literature, French noir
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The Professor’s Wife – Marina DelVecchio
Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “She was not what she had promised, what she had led him to believe. And he couldn’t help but feel deceived. Tricked, somehow. Bitterness coursed through his bloodstream like an invisible worm consuming him from … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction, Skinny reads
Tagged mental illness, Romance, sex
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Seven Down – David Whitton
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned Why would someone agree to participate in a clandestine operation in which they knew nothing about? Would it be for the excitement, money, or for a totally different reason? This is the premise of the … Continue reading
Posted in Humor & Satire, Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged dark humor, Toronto
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A Season in Lights: A Novel in Three Acts – Gregory Erich Phillips
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Less than a year ago, when the curtain fell after the opening night applause, I assumed the New York City I knew—and my place in it—could last forever.” A Season in Lights celebrates performers and … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged artists., Broadway, Carnegie Hall, dancers, dreams, New York, pianists
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Finding Dorothy – Elizabeth Letts
(Review and poem by Betty Jo Tucker) #CommissionsEarned This review poem about the novel Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts is dedicated to the late JoAnne Pulcino, my dear cousin who loved watching The Wizard of Oz movie based on the … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged modern literary fiction, Wizard of Oz
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Beware the Mermaids – Carrie Talick
(Reviewed by Don Jung) What happens when you are content with your current life, but circumstances force you to make unexpected changes? Fifty-seven-year-old grandmother, Nancy, thought she was happy, but then caught her husband with another woman on their yacht. … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged boats, divorce, friendship, infidelity, sea, women's fiction
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Cenotaphs – Rich Marcello
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “If you live long enough, most people leave, a few by staying true to themselves, more by death, indifference, or being driven away. “ Seventy-five-year-old retiree Ben Sanna realizes that no one has stayed with him … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged death, grief, loss, love, redemption, relationships
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Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir – Rajiv Mohabir
(reviewed by JD Jung) “I wanted to stop hiding. I wanted to tell them that I was queer. Queer sexually, queer religiously, queer by caste, and queer countried.” Rajiv Mohabir never felt that he belonged. As a resident of Central … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Immigration, Modern Literary Fiction, World Issues
Tagged class, culture, Guyanese, immigration, India, LGBTQ, multiculture, political activism, race, sexuality
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