Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 107, November 2022 The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn, Translated by Martin Aiken (2022) Strange objects have been brought aboard the Six Thousand Ship from the planet New Discovery. Packed with a mix of human and humanoid crew, the Six Thousand Ship […]
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 106, October 2022 Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the Worldâs Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson (2022) Marked with the iconic, half-shaded face on the cover and the selling a chance to enter a drug-filled underworld of the late â60s, 1971âs Go Ask Alice
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 105, Setptember 2022 Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh (2022) ââLet the birds come and pick my flesh apart. Let them start now,â he thought, âwhile I wait to die.â Whether it was real or not, he didnât care. He felt it was real enough. âCome and take meâ he
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 104, August 2022 Woman of Light by Kali Farjardo-Anstine (2022) âBefore, when they had lived in the Lost Territory, she was surrounded by mountains from Huerfano to Trinidad and all the mining camps in between. The mountains were permanent yet shifting, ancient though young, their white peaks reminding
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 103, July 2022 I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura Van Den Berg (2020) In stories, each more consuming than the last, Laura Van Den Berg sinks us into the lives of women surrounded with trauma, the lingering past, and those anxiously analyzing decisions moving them
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 102, June 2022 When We Cease to Understand the World by BenjamĂn Labatut, Translated by Adrian Nathan West (Translation 2021) In a massively creative and dark mixture of fact and fiction, BenjamĂn Labatut unfolds the complex impacts of scientific and mathematical discovery in his first book translated into
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 101, May 2022 No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (2021) In a follow-up to 2017âs memoir, Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwoodâs first novel is a poetic journey into the absurdity of social media as it clashes against reality. Lockwoodâs unnamed narrator is thrust into social media stardom
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 100, April 2022 A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann NĂ GhrĂofa (2020) âThis is a female text, which is also a caoineadh: a dirge and a drudge-song, an anthem of praise, a chant and a keen, a lament and an echo, a chorus and a hymn. Join
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 099, March 2022 Harrow by Joy Williams (2021)Â âSomething definitely had gone wrong. Even the dead were dismayed.â Joy Williams‘ first novel since 2000âs The Quick and The Dead, takes us on a desolate, western journey set in environmental collapse at the end of the world. This wildly
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 098, February 2022 Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021) A story that started as an essay evolves into a heart shattering memoir in Michelle Zaunerâs Crying in H Mart. Zauner brings us deep inside the complex, painful and love filled relationship with her mother leading to