A review by bashbashbashbash
Tin House 72: Summer Reading 2017 by Holly MacArthur, Rob Spillman, Win McCormack, Daniel Wallace
4.0
Some really amazing things in this. Ann Glaviano's story "Come On, Silver" – a borderline-occult pubescent girl's diary – and Paul Yoon's wonderful quiet story "Milner Field" were standouts. The other was the slow, eerie, atmospheric and beautiful kind of piece I always yearn to read. Both were wonderful.
Kapka Kassabova's essay in readable feast – "The Chicken Shack" – was a portrait at refugees in Bulgaria that cuts through the pathos surrounding the refugee crisis by bringing real people and the granular details of their everyday lives into focus. I hope this will get a wide readership.
I liked the novel excerpts (Camille Bordas's "How to Behave in a Crowd" and Jonathan Dee's "Zero") – one a family story full of dark humor, the other a psychopathic take on what it was like to be in New York on 9/11.
Favorite poems: Donika Kelly's myth-infused trio, Kyle Dargan's poem, and some of the others too.
Everything in Lost and Found was good. I'm very keen to read Mo Yan's "The Garlic Ballads" now, and I loved Mira Ptacin's presentation of survival at sea (secretly a pet topic of mine) and Elisa Albert's unusual presentation of Alexandros Papadiamantis's "The Murderess."
Kapka Kassabova's essay in readable feast – "The Chicken Shack" – was a portrait at refugees in Bulgaria that cuts through the pathos surrounding the refugee crisis by bringing real people and the granular details of their everyday lives into focus. I hope this will get a wide readership.
I liked the novel excerpts (Camille Bordas's "How to Behave in a Crowd" and Jonathan Dee's "Zero") – one a family story full of dark humor, the other a psychopathic take on what it was like to be in New York on 9/11.
Favorite poems: Donika Kelly's myth-infused trio, Kyle Dargan's poem, and some of the others too.
Everything in Lost and Found was good. I'm very keen to read Mo Yan's "The Garlic Ballads" now, and I loved Mira Ptacin's presentation of survival at sea (secretly a pet topic of mine) and Elisa Albert's unusual presentation of Alexandros Papadiamantis's "The Murderess."