http://www.tottenvillereview.com A new review of books focused on debuts, translations, and all works that would otherwise go undetected. It is a collaborative of authors, translators, and reviewers bound by one purpose: to contribute to the dialogue of literature. Thu, 23 May 2013 13:45:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/days-of-uncertainty-fiction-from-the-g-w-o-t/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/days-of-uncertainty-fiction-from-the-g-w-o-t/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 13:16:27 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4564 Reviewed by Jeff PriceIn the new gripping and important anthology with a foreword by Colum McCann, short stories about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars hauntingly unfold and reveal truths about our deepest fears and desires. ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/days-of-uncertainty-fiction-from-the-g-w-o-t/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/how-should-a-zombie-be/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/how-should-a-zombie-be/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 13:36:29 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4544 Reviewed by David Burr GerrardA Questionable Shape is ostensibly about zombies, but Sims is much less interested in chase scenes and infection countdowns than in using undeath to explore memory, home, family, love, and the question what makes a person a person rather than a zombie? ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/how-should-a-zombie-be/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/laughters-dark-underside-santiago-roncagliolos-hi-this-is-conchita/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/laughters-dark-underside-santiago-roncagliolos-hi-this-is-conchita/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 15:06:59 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4529 Reviewed by Nicole CasamentoHi, This is Conchitaoffers an encompassing view of the ways we become detached from intimacy and the painful, misguided ways in which we attempt to retrieve it.]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/laughters-dark-underside-santiago-roncagliolos-hi-this-is-conchita/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/being-nice-is-tiring/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/being-nice-is-tiring/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 14:00:11 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4509 Interviewed by David Burr Gerrard Esteemed writer and academic, Claire Messud, discusses her new novel The Woman Upstairs,its controversial reception, and our entangled forms of media. ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/being-nice-is-tiring/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/our-lady-of-jittery-paranoid-distopia/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/our-lady-of-jittery-paranoid-distopia/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 13:57:07 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4480 Reviewed by Valerie Stivers At the center of Maazel’s zany novel is Thurlow Dan, a self-help guru who has recently made an ill-advised trip to North Korea, and who is being spied on by the U.S. Government.]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/our-lady-of-jittery-paranoid-distopia/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/a-conversation-with-jessica-soffer/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/a-conversation-with-jessica-soffer/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:04:43 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4456 Interviewed by Liz Moore In Jessica Soffer's debut novel Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots,two women adrift in New York—an Iraqi Jewish widow and the latchkey daughter of a chef—find each other and a new kind of family through their shared love of cooking. ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/a-conversation-with-jessica-soffer/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/nicole-stellon-o%E2%80%99donnells-steam-laundry/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/nicole-stellon-o%E2%80%99donnells-steam-laundry/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:06:36 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4437 Reviewed by Rebecca Kuensting Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's debut collection is a novel in poems, resurrecting an old frontier story in creative and bizarre ways. ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/nicole-stellon-o%E2%80%99donnells-steam-laundry/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/no-one-expected-anything-to-be-true-an-interview-with-kristoper-jansma/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/no-one-expected-anything-to-be-true-an-interview-with-kristoper-jansma/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:22:08 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4417 Interviewed by Ryan Skrabalak Kristopher Jansma's much anticipated debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards,presents a narrator who always wanted to be a writer. Now, if only he can be reliable, too. ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/no-one-expected-anything-to-be-true-an-interview-with-kristoper-jansma/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/a-conversation-with-sam-lipsyte/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/a-conversation-with-sam-lipsyte/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:15:00 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4382 by David Burr Gerrard 'The Fun Parts' seems an ironic title for Sam Lipsyte’s astonishing new book, his return to the short story after three acclaimed novels.]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/a-conversation-with-sam-lipsyte/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/the-elephant-in-the-room-rick-bass-in-my-home-there-is-no-more-sorrow/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/the-elephant-in-the-room-rick-bass-in-my-home-there-is-no-more-sorrow/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:34:57 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=4350 Reviewed by Matthew Mercier How the students finally arrive at a safe place to produce this work is the drama of Bass’ narrative. And perhaps unlike most classrooms, the teachers are transformed as much as the students.]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/the-elephant-in-the-room-rick-bass-in-my-home-there-is-no-more-sorrow/feed/ 0