"Anna Hogeland’s wry and searching 'Fictions' contains many layers of fiction. There are the short stories protagonist Catherine Meyer writes for her mentor Anton Andros, the workshopped-to-death novel he orders her to put in a drawer, the 'edgy in a forced way' works of her NYU MFA peers, and Andros’s own novels that have garnered many prestigious awards over the decades. Beneath it all, there are the useful illusions and pretenses that prop up this whole literary establishment, at least in the eyes of a young artist eager to find her place in it."
"A poetic dream come true of space flight, highly recommended for elementary school collections."
"Laskar tells an enthralling tale of a journalist’s futile attempt to separate the personal from the political."
Joshilyn Jackson was featured in the New Yorker article "The Unlikely Success of a Strange Alabama Bookstore."
