Colin Winnette. Les Figues (SPD, dist.), $17 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-934254-56-1
Like a modern-day Poe, Winnette (Fondly) has fashioned a narrator whose pull on the reader’s sympathy gradually fades as she recounts the aftermath of her daughter’s mysterious disappearance. The girl, who remains unnamed (like her parents), was put
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Colin Winnette. Two Dollar Radio (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (212p) ISBN 978-1-937512-32-3
Like many of the frontier lives it chronicles, Winnette’s new novel (after Coyote) is short and brutish. Its two main characters, the brothers Brooke and Sugar, are contract killers, operating in and around the Western everyville of Wolf Creek (in...
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Colin Winnette. Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-59376-680-1
Winnette’s sinister novel (after Haints Stay) begins with a Dickensian premise, as the narrator (unnamed for most of the book) is enrolled in a draconian school for orphans which, its headmaster brags, is “not a school.... It is a temporary holding...
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Colin Winnette. Soft Skull, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59376-737-2
Winnette (The Job of the Wasp) delivers an engaging story of a virtual reality designer stuck in a rut. Miles’s career founders as he casts about for a new product for his Chicago startup that rivals his signature augmented reality experience, “The...
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