In the new issue of The Chapbook Review, I have a review up of David Ohle’s Those Bones, a chapbook focusing on memories of New Orleans pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina that is itself an excerpt from a larger work. A bit of the review follows:
…what follows are short vignettes, New Orleans considered from multiple vantage points. We’re offered a glimpse of Ohle’s family history, short accounts of previous disasters to befall the city in question, and, in the chapbook’s early pages, tragedy at a forced remove: after Hurricane Katrina, Ohle, looking through Google Earth’s window, seeks his “old familiar placesâ€�.
Earlier tonight, I finished reading Ohle’s Boons & The Camp, a collection of two novellas about which I’ll be writing more soon, either here or elsewhere. While stylistically distinct, the two novellas share a surreal take on exploitation; their imagery is beyond vivid, but a sense of outrage and horror is never far away.
(This Emerging Writers Network piece on Ohle’s work is also quite good.)