8/21/13: Review of The Tide King in The Baltimore City Paper

Photo: Rebecca
 Lord

This is one of those reviews that you read over and over when you feel like a complete failure and will never get anything right. Thanks, Baynard Woods, for this little slice of happiness:

The story is as old as the Epic of Gilgamesh, which also features an herb of immortality, and, in this gorgeous novel, Jen Michalski tells it as well as anyone ever has.

To read more, go here.

4/15/13: City Paper Write-up of My Reading at CityLit Festival

Reading at CityLit Festival, April 13, 2012, Baltimore

The Baltimore City Paper did a nice write-up of my reading at the CityLit Festival on Saturday. What a nice surprise to see, and even nicer to read (I think I have found my publicists for The Tide King!)

"Michalski’s recent col­lec­tion of novel­las (which I review here), also released this year, bring remark­ably dif­fer­ent voices to the page, and yet, the rhyth­mic con­trol and pre­ci­sion of the lan­guage and the sweep­ing and yet inti­mate plot of this pre­view of Tide King are even more assured and virtuosic–and also more nat­ural and less labored. It’s likely that this book will finally make Michal­ski known to the wider world–in a big way. Seri­ously, if I weren’t entirely averse to all attempts to pre­dict the future, I would say this book will be huge. But there’s no account­ing for people’s tastes, so I will say instead, with some cer­tainty, that it will be important."

To read more, go here.

Could You Be With Her Now received a nice review today from Baynard Woods and the Baltimore City Paper:

The two very different styles in Could You Be With Her Now, not only make the case for the novella as a form, but also for Michalski as a wise writer and a master stylist.

To read more, go here.