For those of you experiencing The Bear withdrawals (I know I am), may I suggest you taste Service, the fantastic new novel from Irish writer, Sarah Gilmartin? Service is told from three separate character perspectives. At the center of the book is Hannah, who worked in a popular, upscale Dublin restaurant while she was in … Continue reading Review: Service, by Sarah Gilmartin (Pushkin Press)
Review: Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Brazos Press)
Writer Flannery O’Connor published many short stories, but only two novels before her untimely death at age 39. Thanks to academic Jessica Hooten Wilson, readers now have access to fragments of O’Connor’s incomplete novel, Why Do the Heathen Rage? Hooten Wilson has interspersed these short sections with research, insight, and speculation for a unique, enjoyable … Continue reading Review: Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Brazos Press)
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