Lindsay Starck

Aug 28, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Jill Ciment |Lindsay Starck

Reading Lists We can't always trust the stories we tell ourselves The more I learn about memory, the less I trust my own.

Mar 27, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Lindsay Starck

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Lindsay Starck’sMonsters We Have Made is a novel as unsettling as it is vividly told.

Mar 27, 2024 | crimereads.com | Lindsay Starck

There once was a father who slaughtered a pig, and his children saw that. In the afternoon, when they began playing, one child said to the other, “You be the little pig, and I’ll be the butcher.” He then took a shiny knife and slit his little brother’s throat.

Mar 27, 2024 | sacbee.com | Lindsay Starck

What, exactly, are the "Monsters We Have Made?"Lindsay Starck's moody title hangs over the reader who rips through her absorbing second novel, which is more of a family drama than a book about monsters. The Augsburg University professor focuses on a fractured trio: Sylvia, longing for the husband and daughter who were ripped from her; Jack, whom Sylvie claims she doesn't love so frequently that it's clear she's lying; and Faye, their 20-ish daughter.

Mar 18, 2024 | startribune.com | Chris Hewitt |Lindsay Starck

What, exactly, are the "Monsters We Have Made?" Lindsay Starck's moody title hangs over the reader who rips through her absorbing second novel, which is more of a family drama than a book about monsters. The Augsburg University professor focuses on a fractured trio: Sylvia, longing for the husband and daughter who were ripped from her; Jack, whom Sylvie claims she doesn't love so frequently that it's clear she's lying; and Faye, their 20-ish daughter.