This Week’s Hot Reviews

The Horseman’s Song
Ben Pastor | Bitter Lemon Press | 9781912242115 | March 2019

“An expertly crafted mystery by a master of the genre, The Horseman’s Song is an especially recommended addition to community library Mystery/Suspense collections.”—Midwest Book Review

The Lake on Fire
Rosellen Brown | Sarabande Books | 9781946448231 | October 2018

“Despite its obvious relevance to contemporary matters, the novel is not merely a critique of the present disguised as a narrative set in the past, nor are the characters simply thinly veiled excuses for pitting different political ideologies against each other; their psychologies extend far beyond the views they embody.”—Women’s Review of Books

Your Golden Sun Still Shines
Denise Sullivan | Manic D Press | 9781945665059 | October 2017

“. . . . San Francisco’s golden sun still shines even as times change. This collection shows a snapshot of a city in transition.”—KCET of Los Angeles

Sweet Little C*nt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet
Anne Elizabeth Moore | Uncivilized Books | 9781941250280 | December 2018

Though it can be theoretically dense, Moore’s great gift to scholarship on Doucet’s work and/or the history of non-cis-male comic-makers, is her focus on the details of Doucet’s comics: from her alertness to moments when a character’s foot kicks through the outline of a panel because of the foot’s enthusiasm, to all of the graphic elements that add up to a sequence being a ‘dreamoir’ (dream memoir), to the relative fragility of lettering and line weight. Moore’s attention is razor sharp and brings imagery that one may not have seen in person in many years to the forefront of our consciousness.Hyperallergic

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