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Review: Goodnight Nobody by Ethel Rohan

October 8, 2013 by Diane Becker

“As soon as she’s organised, she walks onto the glass bridge and through the warm blue sky, her arms stretched out from her sides. People stare, and some throw her cranky looks because of all the space she’s taking up, but she doesn’t care. She twirls above the rush of water and inside the cool of clouds, gravity as good as gone.” Extract from Ethel Rohan‘s second collection, Goodnight Nobody. Reviewed here (by me) for The Short Review.

Categories: Reviews, Short Fiction • Tags: Ethel Rohan, Goodnight Nobody, review, Short Fiction, Short Story Collection

Harry Karlinsky The Evolution of Inanimate Objects: review

March 12, 2012 by Diane Becker

What a great idea for a novel – take the most famous evolutionist in the history of science, a son who didn’t exist and construct a ‘factitious’ biography of said son’s ‘Life and Collected Works’. Thomas Darwin is purported to be the youngest son of the famous Charles, daughter of Emma (née Wedgwood, yes the pottery people). His mum and dad are first cousins (a trifling matter, but neatly ironic). Thomas is a bit of a strange child, ‘alone but […]

Categories: Reviews • Tags: Book review, Four stars, Harper Collins, Harry Karlinsky, The Evolution of Inanimate Objects, The Friday Project

New review: The Physics of Imaginary Objects by Tina May Hall

January 20, 2012 by Diane Becker

Unexpected connections: wasps and love betrayed, barometric pressure and ovulation, neon flowers and a black hole. Hall’s debut collection proves string theory, at least in literary form… Read my full review of The Physics of Imaginary Objects by Tina May Hall, here at The Short Review.

Categories: Reviews • Tags: review by Diane Becker, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, the short review, Tina May Hall, Tina May Hall review, Tina May Hall The Physics of Imaginary Objects review

Matthew Pitt Attention Please Now: review

October 12, 2011 by Diane Becker

Matthew Pitt’s debut collection Attention Please Now (Autumn House Press) is reviewed (by me) in the October 2011 issue of The Short Review.

Categories: Reviews, Short Fiction • Tags: Attention Please Now, Contemporary American Fiction, Matthew Pitt, review, Short Fiction, Short Fiction Collection, short stories, the short review

Patrick Cullen What Came Between: review

December 21, 2010 by Diane Becker

My review of Patrick Cullen‘s debut short fiction collection, What Came Between, in the Winter 2010 issue of The Short Review.

Categories: Reviews, Short Fiction • Tags: Patrick Cullen, Patrick Cullen What Came Between review, the short review, What Came Between

Matt Bell How They Were Found: review

November 16, 2010 by Diane Becker

Matt Bell’s How They Were Found “Inspired, poetic, experimental collection of short fiction. Bell takes a vision of the real world and turns it inside out. Magical. Riveting.” Reviewed for The Short Review (November 2010)

Categories: Reviews, Short Fiction • Tags: How They Were Found, I review Matt Bell's collection How They Were Found at The Short Review, Matt Bell, November 2010, the short review

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