Abby Manzella Sylvie lied about her favorite cereal. (Life not Honey Nut Cheerios.) She lied about the book she was reading. (A Bridge to Terabithia not A Room of One’s Own.) She lied about why, three weeks from the end of her junior year, she no longer had a curfew….
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Christine Sneed writes about Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, out now from 7.13 Books. If Please Be Advised were a discotheque, it would feature…
Jerry Gabriel “The other animals didn’t feel one bit safe. They stood at a distance and tried to talk things over with the tawny, scrawny lion.” —The Tawny Scrawny Lion, Katherine Jackson, 1951 The six of them stood around the watering hole—Elephant, Monkey, Kangaroo, Zebra, Bear, and Camel. The mood was…
