This week’s The Novel of Now: Micro-Reviews covers the fantastic The Other Americans by Laila Lalami, published in March of 2019. This series presents reviews of contemporary novels written by college seniors in a class led by our very own…
Drum roll, please… The winners are in! Please help us congratulate Kathryn Phelan, Felicity Fenton, and Kevin Leahy for being selected as our Flash Fiction Contest finalists by Flashmaster Kathy Fish! In addition to the monetary prize and publication, these…
In Emily Dyer Barker’s “Premonition,” Paloma measures and compares the sweetness of oranges by the time of the day. The story opens with this grounded statement, but quickly eddies into a something like a hallucination. Barker’s writing takes on a…
September’s edition of New Writing on the Net comes to us The Masters Review reader Jen Dupree. She writes, “I recently read Miranda July’s The First Bad Man and it’s such a physical book, so much about the body, that I couldn’t sop thinking about how physicality is conveyed in literature. This list reflects that.” “Stories We Tell Now” by Jennifer Swift | The Sun, Sept. 2019 “We think of the girl, all the rules she’d been taught: be pretty,…
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