When I started reading Odsburg, the new novel by Matt Tompkins (Ooligan Press), the events it portrays seemed, well…odd.Today, though, we could all be in Odsburg. At the very least, it’s a worthwhile trip while you’re social distancing. The novel is a study of the fictional town of Odsburg, Washington by the world’s first (and only) […]
Read More…Since the days of Alexis de Tocqueville, America has relied on the perspective of outsiders to reveal our nation as it truly is. Frank Thomas Rosen is another voice that we should add to that list of valuable perspectives. Rosen, who grew up in East Germany and witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall before […]
Read More…This book review is written by Raima Larter, a Little Patuxent Review fiction reader. Local publisher Mason Jar Press of Baltimore has just published the debut collection, How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays, by Tyrese Coleman, a writer based in the Washington, D.C., area. Coleman has a strong engaging voice with important things […]
Read More…This book review is written by Patricia Jakovich VanAmburg, a member of Little Patuxent Review‘s Review Committee. At first glance, Broken Metropolis: Queer Tales of a City That Never Was, recently released by Mason Jar Press, reminded me of the similarly titled 1927 Science Fiction work best described as urban dystopia. Despite the similarity of […]
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