Alan DeNiro, Author . Small Beer $16 (215p) ISBN 978-1-931520-17-1
A commitment to experimental structure and oddball elements provides this debut collection's consistency, but they often devolve into a kind of self-conscious blandness that blunts the stories' impact. In "The Caliber," a high school
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Alan DeNiro, Author . Spectra $15 (306p) ISBN 978-0-553-59254-2
As this peculiar but entertaining first novel begins, geography and cosmology have shifted. Natural laws work unpredictably. The U.S. government has disappeared and plundering bands of Goths and Scythians roam the Midwest. Sea serpents close the...
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Alan DeNiro. Small Beer (Consortium, dist.), $16 (200p) ISBN 978-1-61873-071-8
DeNiro (Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead) has crafted the rare work whose setting is the realm of pure imagination. “The Flowering Ape” takes us to the furthest reaches of “wherespace,” the stage for an emotionally poignant coming-of-age story
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