Richard Mirabella

Oct 30, 2024 | therumpus.net | Richard Mirabella

Kyle Winkler lives in Ohio and teaches at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. A long-haired, bespectacled husband and father, Winkler happens to write some of the strangest, scariest, most inventive fiction out there. His stories are literary, emotional, character-driven, and delightfully unsettling. Winkler’s work has been praised by the likes of Dan Chaon, Christian Kiefer, Amber Sparks, and Brian Evanson. Still, you may not have heard of him, as he doesn’t have a big publisher or a publicist.

Oct 24, 2024 | chireviewofbooks.com | Richard Mirabella

Nate Lippens’ new novel, Ripcord, a companion to his outstanding debut, My Dead Book, is a novel made of fragments, glimpses, and moments in time. The narrator, a middle-aged queer man living in Milwaukee, meditates on his current situation, a semi-affair with a married man, and the lives of his friends, who are, like him, struggling to make ends meet. Lippens’ novel is brimming with witty asides, pitch dark humor, tenderness, and pain.

Dec 28, 2023 | saveourserotonin.substack.com | Justin Torres |R. Eric Thomas |Richard Mirabella |Melissa Broder

I was originally going to be cute and roundup twenty-three of my favorite reads from 2023, but doing so would have done a great disservice to the remaining bevy of breathtaking books I’ve devoured this year. Even narrowing it down to thirty was difficult, as I have read sixty-four books this year, which is less than my yearly average of around eighty.