By Heather MackeyStuck in a dead-end town on the fringe of the Bay Area, sixteen-year-old Deep Singh yearns for escape. His parents are driving him crazy. His brother—a formerly charismatic and brilliant boy—may actually be crazy. As Deep falls into an affair with a...
By Heather Mackey
In her essay collection The Deep Zoo, novelist, poet, and painter Rikki Ducornet makes glittering connections between art, nature, and myth, beading them upon a string of deeply felt personal inquiry. Allusive and sometimes fragmentary, these essays take the form of crystalline observations, attuned to the pleasures of both language and thought.
Heather Mackey (reviews of Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s Nothing and Rodigo Rey Rosa’s Severina)will be reading from her debut novel DreamwoodThursday October 16, 6 p.m.at Lit on the Lake as part of LitquakeLake ChaletGondola Room1520 Lakeside DriveOakland, CA
Heather Mackey (reviews of Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s Nothing and Rodigo Rey Rosa’s Severina) will be reading from her debut novel at the Berkeley launch party for Dreamwood. Saturday, June 14, 4 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s 2904 College Avenue Berkeley, California...
By Heather Mackey
Short enough to be read in one sitting, Severina by Guatemalan master Rodrigo Rey Rosa lingers disproportionately long in the imagination.
Review by Heather Mackey
Sometimes it’s hard to call a book “promising,” with all that the word connotes of amiability. Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s debut novel Nothing is as promising as a rattlesnake.