Ember Days by Nick Ripatrazone Alleyway Books, 2015 $16.00 COME BACK HERE. KNOW A GUY WHO CAN HELP YOU FIND THE BOMB. Ember Days opens almost immediately with this all-caps note—a message from a brother to a brother, a last-ditch effort to reunite, to collect a debt, and to repent for a wrongdoing. This is …
Turning Japanese Graphic Memoir by MariNaomi 2D Cloud, 2016 $24.95 “The year was 1995 and I was twenty-two years old.” MariNaomi’s Turning Japanese begins with a breakup and ends with a homecoming. It’s a memoir that chronicles the protagonist’s personal evolution from job to job, from hemisphere to hemisphere. It’s a story that details MariNaomi’s …
Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones Two Dollar Radio, 2014 $12.00 I’ve been told time and time again not to judge a book by its cover. And I’ll come clean—I always do. I’m a sucker for beautiful cover art. It will force me to pick a book off the shelf every time. I grew up with …
Easiest If I Had A Gun by Michael Gerhard Martin Alleyway Books, 2014 $16.00 If I’ve ever encountered a title that instantly sets the tone for a story collection, it’s “Shit Weasel is Late for Class.” The first tale in Easiest If I Had a Gun is an angry, bitter story of self-loathing from the mouth of a bullied …