Wild Milk Review

These are very dependent on me as a reader, my reading mindset. Each is finely constructed but I really need to meet them on their own terms with willing alertness or they don't really engage what the...

Utterly strange and wonderfully ridiculous. These stories have a fairy tale quality and are sprinkled with odd mothers, forgetful lovers, cruel children, and confused protagonists. At times, they feel...

George Saunders meets Leonora Carrington in a tripped-out Perrault fairy tale. Love....

3.5 starsExtremely clever, frequently funny language play abounds in this little book. Part Kafka, part Diane Williams, part Henny Youngman, Mark takes ordinary situations, tosses in startling imagery...

There are awesome pieces here, like "The Taxmen": When the taxmen came for Father's heart, Father is on the phone. I hear him say: "they're here." I hear him say, "keep the bones."Then there are piece...

I love these wry, gem-like short stories. I gobbled them up like so many chips, all in one afternoon, and am now rereading them more slowly, to savor what Mark does with words. These pieces are magica...

It is an absolutely delightful and unapologetically poetic collection of short stories or sometimes prose poems. A collection so desperately needed in these times; it has enough potency to make us rea...

This collection is nuts. Almost like an alien, or a lonely computer trying to speak english, trying to make out of the ruins of a dying language. References are dropped with cultural context, strippin...

As wildly language driven as ever. The stories themselves fold into phrases. The phrases turn into jokes, the jokes turn into sublime tragedies. Many stories about family and motherhood and so many ot...

If you want biting, poignant, and wonderfully baffling short stories, many of which blur the line between poetry and prose, you've come to the right collection. Stories don't need linear time or expec...