Jensen Beach is the author of the story collection For Out of the Heart Proceed (Dark Sky Books, 2012). His fiction has recently appeared in American Short Fiction online, Ninth Letter, Fifty-Two Stories, Sou’Wester, Witness, and the Best of the Web 2010. He lives with his family in Illinois.
Summer 2012
Moses’ Son: Adam Levin’s Hot Pink
On every page of his short story collection Hot Pink, his second book, Adam Levin can be found experimenting, fixing, inventing—to great effect. In “Frankenwittgenstein” Mike’s father struggles to perfect “Bonnie: The Beautiful Body-Action Doll for the Self-Body Image-Enhancement of Toddling and Preadolescent Girls at Risk.™”
Fall 2011
All Happy Families: Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang
Ecco Press: New York, NY, 2011. 320 pages. $23.00. The main characters of Kevin Wilson’s novel The Family Fang will draw the inevitable comparisons: Wes Anderson’s Tenenbaums, J.D. Salinger’s troubled […]