Obsession and Celebrity in Laura Sims’ Looker
Laura Sims’ first novel considers what happens when infatuation, driven by depression and society’s subtly crushing expectations, is given room to fester into something closer to violent obsession.
Author: Chase Burke
The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg
Buoyed by van den Berg’s sinuous, marvelous sentences, the novel is a deep dive into memory, love, and loss as filtered through film theory, metaphysics, and the humid, sunstroked cityscape of Havana.