It’s lovely that the NYTBR reviewed Max Apple’s collection of stories, A Jew in Home Depot, the first collection he’s published in twenty years, but just strange that the review is coming out now, nearly four months after the book was released (The LA Times review, written by Tod Goldberg, came out in late November). Perhaps something to do with the collection being published by a university press? (John Hopkins University Press)
LA Times offered a single-paragraph review of Naomi Benaron’s Love Letters From a Fat Man.
The nervous, tender-hearted stories in “Love Letters From a Fat Man” are often set in that netherworld humans inhabit after loss — that strange, weightless, one-foot-in-front-of-the-other place that is a buffer between the painful present and the next chapter.
The Guardian has a paragraph review of Sunstroke by Tessa Hadley, which I reviewed in my last post.
Lastly, The Globe (via Kate) has two reviews of short story collections: A Grave in the Air by Stephen Henighan and Incidental Music by Carol Matthews. Here’s part of the review of the former:
A Grave in the Air is a collection of eight stories set amid political events in Eastern and Central Europe, spanning the half-century between Nazi Germany and the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. The narrative voices are wide-ranging, from a Polish chambermaid’s ruminations about the cultural cost of exile, to a Hungarian immigrant’s alienation from the anglo elite of Montreal.
