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Author Archives: Gloria Beth Amodeo

Review: Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church Edited by Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal

June 8, 2020

Gloria Beth Amodeo

(Indianapolis, IN: Epiphany Publishing, 2019) “I was taught that it was Eve who ended paradise with her hunger,” Lyz Lenz writes in “Cottonwood Creek”—one of the essays in Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church. “But lately, I have … Continued

A Review of Modern Love by Constance DeJong

December 4, 2017

Gloria Beth Amodeo

(Brooklyn, NY: Primary Information & Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) “I’ve been seeing too many artists,” Constance DeJong tells us at the beginning of Modern Love. “I can’t go through life looking at how objects are colored, cut out and arranged. … Continued

A Review of Family Genus Species by Kevin Allardice

September 11, 2017

Gloria Beth Amodeo

(San Francisco, CA: Outpost19, 2017) Vee is not adept at interpersonal connection, but she’s at a birthday party anyway for her nephew, Charlie. She has bought him a toy dinosaur and it’s sitting in a box that she can’t put … Continued

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