Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature and Being by Johanna Skibsrud (Toronto: Book*hug Press, October 1, 2019 (Essais Series No. 9). 128 pages; $20.00; paperback original ISBN 9781771665261). “Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.”—…
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CHIMERICA by Anita Felicelli
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Chimerica by Anita Felicelli (Santa Rosa, CA: WTAW Press, September 5, 2019. 296 pages; $18.95; paperback ISBN 978-1-73298-201-7). “The Lemur People are older than Homo Sap, much older.” —William S. Burroughs, Ghost of Chance Anita Felicelli’s…
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Indigenous Literature
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia, edited by Evelyn Flores and Emelihter Kihleng (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2019. 384 pages; $90.00 hardback, ISBN 9780824875411; $30.00 paperback, ISBN 9780824877460). New Oceania Literary Series editor: Craig Santos Perez “Even…
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DOTTORESSA by Susan Levenstein
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome by Susan Levenstein, MD (Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, May 21, 2019. 270 pages; $16.95; paperback original ISBN 978-1-58988-139-6.) Paese che vai, usanze che trovi. (When in Rome, do as the…
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TERMINATION SHOCKS by Janice Margolis
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Termination Shocks by Janice Margolis (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, April 14, 2019). 192 pages; $19.95, paperback original ISBN 978-1-62534-420-5. “But how is it That this lives in thy mind? What see’st thou else In…
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PHANTOMS by Christian Kiefer
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Phantoms by Christian Kiefer (New York: Liveright Publishing, April 9, 2019). 288 pages; $26.95, hardcover ISBN 9780871404817. “These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself….” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Masque of Pandora…
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BRIGHT by Duanwad Pimwana
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Bright by Duanwad Pimwana, translated by Mui Poopoksakul (San Francisco: Two Lines Press, April 9, 2019). 184 pages; $16.95, paperback ISBN 9781931883801; $8.99, e-book ISBN 9781931883825. Melbourne, Australia: Brow Books, Forthcoming June 2019. First published in…
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ALL THE FIERCE TETHERS by Lia Purpura
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor All the Fierce Tethers: Essays by Lia Purpura (Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, April 9, 2019). 200 pages, $10.76, paperback ISBN 9781946448309. “Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook.” —Sherlock Holmes “A Case of…
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SOUNDS LIKE TITANIC by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (New York: W. W. Norton, February 12, 2019). 256 pp, $25.95, hardcover ISBN 9780393651645. “Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” “Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see…
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FINDERS by Melissa Scott
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor FINDERS by Melissa Scott (Cambridge, MA: Candlemark & Gleam, December 10, 2018). 372 pp, $20.95 paperback, ISBN 9781936460885; $5.99 e-book, ISBN 9781936460878. “…to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates….” — Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus…
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AYA DANE by Mhani Alaoui
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor AYA DANE by Mhani Alaoui (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2019). 256 pp, $15.00; paperback ISBN 9781623719685. Aya Dane is an elegant exploration of invisible cultural memories, creatively rendered on a canvas of migration. Here in her…
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White Dancing Elephants
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES by Chaya Bhuvaneswar (Durham, NC: Dzanc Books, October 9, 2018). 208 pp, $16.95; paperback ISBN 9781945814617. “Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives.” —Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Before We Visit the Goddess (p. 68) Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s…