BOOKLOVES

It is a quiet Tuesday that has turned busy without warning. A small wine bar in Hobart is short one staff member, every table is full, and a nervous junior sommelier is carrying too many glasses. They hit the floor. She bursts into tears. For a second the whole room stops, the owner included, standing […]

It is January in Chicago, late at night, and cold enough that the tears on a young woman’s face are starting to freeze. She is standing on the platform at the Diversey stop, coming home from a party she should have enjoyed. A train pulls in. A man she knows far too well steps toward […]

An irreverent, blood-soaked morsel of Western horror with a metafictional twist (and flying sharks) Both the title and premise of Brian Allen Carr’s Motherfucking Sharks promise a romp akin to Sharknado and other gleefully kitschy creature features: man-eating sharks that follow storms, spawning in leftover puddles and chewing their way through entire communities as they […]

The room has no curtains between the beds, which she likes. People talk to each other. A nurse with a felt strawberry clipped in her hair tells her she has really prominent veins, and then that she is a good bleeder, and both land like compliments because nobody has praised her for anything in a […]

She has been dead for roughly a hundred years, and she still drinks her water. She still has a doughnut for breakfast and the occasional cigarette after dinner, even though her body requires none of it. And she holds on to these small habits deliberately, because they are the last human things she has left, […]

An empowering novel about finding purpose in the aftermath of a decades-long crumbling marriage Rachel has no complaints. In the suburbs of Southern California, she and Jeremy have managed to send their two children to college while maintaining their beautiful, cookie-cutter home and fairytale love story.  Rachel’s domestic bliss implodes, however, on the evening of […]

A young soldier is taken down a maze of stairs into a windowless room beneath a desert military base. There is a drain in the floor. One wall is a sheet of dark glass with a spout set into the middle of it. She is told to stand on the drain, cross her arms over […]