6/4/2013: First review of The Tide King!

The first review of The Tide King is out, slightly ahead of the book! (As I understand, it's being printed as I write!) Anyway, writer Rosalia Scalia had some really nice things to say about it:

...Michalski creates a tale that sweeps history by marrying icons of childhood nightmares such as witches, magic, and children struggling on their own to the icons of adult nightmares: war battles, socially sanctioned violence and murder, success and failure in love, success and failure in connecting meaningfully with others, and the mind-numbing, soul-sucking daily grind.
In short, this book about the passing of time will make you impatient to discover what happens next. The other joy sparked by this book is recognizing familiar locales in Baltimore and Fells Point. They provide an extra treat, a view of the familiar through the eyes of an east Baltimore boy, Stanley Polensky, and thereby through the eyes of one of the city’s most gifted scribes.

To read more, go here.


If you'd like to read The Tide King for yourself, I will be reading at HearArts in Rockville on Thursday, June 6th, 7 pm. Jazz will be provided by Night Moves.

Review of Could You Be With Her Now in Little Patuxent Review

I was delighted to read writer Rosalia Scalia's review of Could You Be With Her Now in Little Patuxent Review. Her insights are dead on:

In both stories, Michalski deftly explores what it means to be vulnerable in modern society, what it means to be invisible, powerless, voiceless—either from mental or physical frailty–but struggling to matter in the world just the same. How carelessness and resentments on the part of family members can inadvertently thrust their vulnerable loved ones into situations that bring unexpected, unwanted, painful consequences.

To read more, go here: