by Jason Bovberg | Aug 1, 2021 | Publishing, Reviews
There’s a sultry, dreamlike quality to Megan Abbott’s more recent books, bringing to mind the gauzy images of, oh, Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides or Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Watching Abbott’s extended interview in the Criterion Channel’s Adventures in...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 19, 2021 | Horror, Publishing, Reviews
Let’s get this out of the way, right here at the start: You’re going to feel a strong Near Dark vibe in Richard Lange’s excellent neo-western vampire novel Rovers. The book is awash in the same kind of gritty, sunbaked, sweaty supernatural grime that...
by Jason Bovberg | Jun 21, 2021 | Publishing, Reviews
S.A. Cosby rocketed to crime-fiction stardom in 2020, despite the pandemic’s blistering effect on publishing, with his novel Blacktop Wasteland, a visceral heist novel that offers a twist on the crime-fiction convention of the down-and-out criminal embarking—against a...
by Jason Bovberg | May 3, 2021 | Books, Loser Baby, Reviews
Head on over to Best Thriller Books to check out the first professional review of Loser Baby! I think Steve Netter has provided an insightful take on the novel, mentioning the multiple perspectives and the way the book deals with both the lowest and the highest...
by Jason Bovberg | Apr 28, 2021 | Publishing, Reviews
I’ve been a Joe R. Lansdale fan since … well, not quite the beginning of his career, but pretty close. I remember picking up his groundbreaking weird western Dead in the West at a Fangoria Weekend of Horrors around 1986, and that wasn’t long after he burst onto the...
by Jason Bovberg | Nov 28, 2020 | Journalism, Reviews
Jeremy Robert Johnson is part of the Chuck Palahniuk school of shock fiction. He’s been around for years, producing an almost underground brand of intriguing off-the-wall tales categorized as “bizarro.” The thrust of the dark genre is that nothing is off-limits, so...
