Synopsis of the Novel, Those Brave As the Skate Is
Patrick Keller's Those Brave As the Skate Is is the 2018 winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. Jonathan Lyons, the contest...
Synopsis of the Novel, The Marble Corridor
The Marble Corridor is an experimental work of literature written by Ryan Madej. It reads like a found artifact and Madej's stewardship of the style singl...
Synopsis of the Novel, Death at Half Mast
Death at Half-Mast by Denis Emorine is a novel of maturity, a profound, philosophical work by a writer, essentially a poet, who is not afraid to ask the un...
Synopsis of the Novel, Porn-Anti-Porn
Porn-Anti-Porn displays the body in pain and passion as it's never been displayed before. Fired at the reader from opposing directions, the texts are brief, er...
Synopsis of the Novel, Finding Mememo: A Book in Search of an Author
When Hy ("Mememo") Grader falls from the balcony of the renowned art and literary establishment, the Cliff Dwellers, the event e...
Synopsis of the Novel, The Iguanas of Heat
The Iguanas of Heat is a Novel about a woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband who plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. ...
Synopsis of the Novel, Warm Arctic Nights
In Yuriy Tarnawsky's Warm Arctic Nights, a young boy's idyllic pre-WWII Polish childhood and nightmarish WWII Ukrainian adolescence are brought to vibrant ...
Synopsis of the Novel, Understanding Franklin Thompson
Middle-aged bachelor Franklin Thompson and his widowed mother, Audrey, live in a quiet small town. But their lives are periodically marred by ...
Synopsis of the Novel, The Skrat Prize Memorial Anthology
Dr. Michael H.J. Tizard never got what he deserved: professional and romantic recognition from his mentor. But with one eye firmly on the c...
Synopsis of the Novel, Mouth
Winner of the 2016 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel, Mouth is a story about two women, Chica and Bela, told in alternating narrative voices with illustrat...
Synopsis of the Novel, The Darkness Starts Up Where You Stand
Arthur Knight's The Darkness Starts Up Where You Stand tells the story of a woman's descent into addiction following the loss of her hu...
Synopsis of the Novel, Apostrophe/Parenthesis
Apostrophe/Parenthesis follows Federigo, the grandson of the Man Without Qualities, living in New York City. In an attempt to capture twenty years of h...
