short story collection

Review: SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN, YOU’LL SEE by Christos Ikonomou
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Review: SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN, YOU’LL SEE by Christos Ikonomou

Though Ikonomou’s characters are faced with Greece’s economic crisis, and the collection is beholden to particular circumstance, place, and time, Something Will Happen is not so particular as to be prohibitive. It’s spare. It’s intricate, full of heart and heft, and about the crisis only insofar as it enters the lives of these men and women, their dreams and thoughts, their relationships and homes.

Searching for Artifacts: An Interview with Sara Majka
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Searching for Artifacts: An Interview with Sara Majka

In the opening piece in Sara Majka’s haunting debut collection of linked stories, Cities I’ve Never Lived In, the narrator announces that she is in the middle of a divorce and about to board a train into a city. Her solution to her problems is “to move from place to place, trying to thread together,…

Review: BRIGHT SHARDS OF SOMEPLACE ELSE by Monica McFawn
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Review: BRIGHT SHARDS OF SOMEPLACE ELSE by Monica McFawn

Bright Shards of Someplace ElseMonica McFawnUniversity of Georgia Press, September 2014176 pages$24.95 Buy: book Every writer has faced the age-old question, “What makes a story?” History has provided us with plenty of satisfactory answers—in the excitement found in novelty or the resonance found in the ordinary. Monica McFawn’s short story collection Bright Shards of Someplace…