Bookworm, no. 40
Alexander Sallas on Zoe Whittall’s “Wild Failure.” Caroline Noël reviews Marie Uguay’s “Journal.” A page from “Love Novel.” Inside the May issue.
For Mature Audiences Only
Wild Failure
Zoe Whittall
HarperCollins
224 pages, hardcover and ebook
Sensitive readers beware. With unvarnished prose, Zoe Whittall’s debut story collection, Wild Failure, deals with death, drugs, excrement, porn, and sex, among other explicit matters. This is not mindless schlock. In the spirit of writers such as Irving Layton an…
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