Deirdre Danklin prisms the slivers of light in Jane V. Blunschi’s debut novella Mon Dieu, Love (Texas Review Press, 2023). ISBN: 978-1-68003-343-4 | 122 pp | 19.95 USD — BUY Here #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY Mon Dieu, Love by Jane V. Blunschi, winner of the 2022 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize (selected by Renee Gladman), is a novella about love. It’s about romantic love in all its twisting permutations — between Elise and a nun named Michael, between Elise
J.A. BernsteinGlass Essays (Variant Literature, 2023)ISBN: 978-1-95560-213-6 | 29 pp | $11 USD — BUY Here #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY Glass Essays by J.A. Bernstein, published in 2023 by Variant Literature, is a chapbook of short personal essays that covers the author’s time in the Israeli Army, his work as a professor in Mississippi and his domestic life with his wife and children. The pieces in this collection take a moment in time (children running — their mother
Pirkko Saisio (Writer), Mia Spangenberg (Translator)The Red Books of Farewells (Center for the Art of Translation, 2023)ISBN: 978-1-94964-146-2 | 312 pp | $24.95 USD — BUY Here #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio, published for the first time in English in 2023 by the Center for the Art of Translation, is a novel about a woman who comes of age in Finland during the height of radical political discourse and experimental theatre
Introducing our November 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Deirdre Danklin holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband, son and two cats. Her flash fiction and essays have been published in Hobart, Pithead Chapel and The Jellyfish Review, among others. Her debut novella, Catastrophe, which won the 2021 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and was nominated for a 2022 Shirley Jackson Award, was published by Texas Review Press. Danklin’s flash fiction chapbook, How