Ugh, seventh grade. Do you remember it? That awful year when everything is changing at a pace you aren’t quite sure of — your body, your friends, the rules of society. Kevin Brockmeier nails it…
Posts tagged Kevin Brockmeier
The disappointment
Can we all agree before I start that Kevin Brockmeier is a beautiful and inventive writer? His novel The Brief History of the Dead still haunts me even thought it’s been years since I’ve read…
The Illumination
I love the way Kevin Brockmeier tells a story. A master at painting complex, rich characters, Brockmeier makes it look easy. Not that it is easy, far from it, but as a reader I felt…
Trick or Treat — Spooky, weird stories for you to read this Halloween
I don’t read a lot of genre fiction (because I am snotty like that). However, occassionally a reader stumbles across a story that combines the best of genre fiction with the best literary fiction to…