Alexander Yates‘s first novel, Moondogs, was published by Doubleday in 2011. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salon, American Fiction and This Land. He lives in Kigali, Rwanda.
Fiction
Winter 2013
Millionaire
Kunal and Lisa exit the events hall of the Mumbai Golf Club where, not an hour ago, Kunal’s cousin married a homely, friendly Indian girl. They cross the private grounds […]
Winter 2013
Shirking the Genre Ghetto: On Lev Grossman’s The Magician King and the Fantastical Novel in 2012
Last fall, Lev Grossman released The Magician King, the follow-up to his 2009 bestseller, The Magicians, and the second book in a planned trilogy. Like its predecessor, which was variously called “Harry Potter for adults” and “Harry Potter with sex and drugs”, The Magician King follows Quentin Coldwater and his friends on their adventures through an imagined world called “Fillory,” as well as a magical, booze-infused underground on good old Earth.
Winter 2011
Benjamin Percy’s The Wilding
Graywolf Press: Minneapolis, MN, 2010. 288 pages. $23.00. In the tradition of Deliverance—and with an epigraph from the same—comes Benjamin Percy’s tense debut novel, The Wilding. Like James Dickey’s classic, […]