I get to talk about reviewing with a host of cool reviewers - this was a lot of fun!
Runalong Womble
I love reviews where the critic is openly grappling with their reading of a book. Too often it seems reviewers feel compelled to have formed an opinion set in stone, but one of the benefits of the critical review is the space to ask more questions. Rabbit, Fox, Tar sounds like a fascinating book.
Continuing my campaign to get everyone to start a blog again, I recced several things hosted on blogs! Intergalactic Mixtape is live. 🥳
Single Syllable Symphony: for this month's Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at language and worldbuilding in Rebecca Gransden’s FIGURES CROSSING THE FIELD TOWARDS THE GROUP (Tangerine Press)
Sullivan Summer Under Review:Rabbit, Fox, Tar. P.C. Verrone. Catapult, June 2026. “To call Original Hill a place alone,” writes P.C. Verrone in his debut novel, Rabbit, Fox, Tar, “would have done i…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
I do not fully trust critics who are not both lovers and haters. All I want is for you to have some kind of taste, some kind of ethic, and I want you to argue in favor of it, which should inevitably mean that you greatly admire some works in your chosen field and definitely don’t admire others.
An absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 review of ELECTRIC SHAMANS: "The power of the novel lies in the beauty and skill of Ojeda’s language, which boils complex philosophical ideas down into short aphorisms and laces them together into flowing, poetic monologues reminiscent of the best of Virginia Woolf."
