by Brandon Williams May 8, 2020 The Strop Weekly Roundup Weekly Roundup: What to Read Each Week in May What to read in May — featuring Emma Straub, Genevieve Hudson, Andrew David MacDonald, and Gish Jen.
by Sierra Stonebraker April 11, 2020 Books The Written How “The Weirdness” Shaped My Expectations of the Weird When do you reveal magic in a story? In Bushnell’s “The Weirdness,” magic is secondary to character.
by Brandon Williams April 3, 2020 The Strop Weekly Roundup Weekly Roundup: What to Read Each Week in April Our top books to read in April: work from Chelsea Bieker, Julia Alvarez , Otessa Moshfegh, and Laila Lalami.
by Brandon Williams February 28, 2020 The Strop Weekly Roundup Weekly Roundup: What to Read Each Week in March Our top books to read in March: new work from Louise Erdrich, Kate Elizabeth Russel, and Emily St. John Mandel.
by Lakshmi Mitra February 27, 2020 Books The Written Review: Grief and Growing Up in “Tell the Wolves I’m Home” “Some books are only for certain people. Some are for most people, and this might just be one of those.”
by The Vaqueros February 7, 2020 The Strop Weekly Roundup 3 Weird Books That Make Their Own Rules These books prove one thing: do what you want, just do it well.
by Brandon Williams January 31, 2020 The Strop Weekly Roundup Weekly Roundup: What to Read Each Week in February Tackle the most anticipated books of the year, one week at a time. This week: February selections.
by Brandon Williams January 3, 2020 The Strop Weekly Roundup Weekly Roundup: What to Read Each Week in January Tackle the most anticipated books of the year, one week at a time. This week: January selections.
by Daniel Mazzacane December 30, 2019 Books The Written Review: “In the Dream House” and Self-Definition as Genre Experiment “While the relationship forms the skeleton of the piece, Machado’s desire for context and definition is the beating heart of In the Dream House.”
by Jeff Kronenfeld November 19, 2019 Books The Written Interview: A Guided Tour of Rob Hart’s Dystopian Thriller, “The Warehouse” What’s more terrifying than zombies, vampires and dragons? A company like Amazon usurping democracy and running warehouses the size ofContinue Reading