Christopher Barzak

Category: Reviews

  • New Year’s review

    My New Year’s Day starts with a great, eerily knowing review of The Love We Share Without Knowing by Elizabeth Hand.  Why so eerily knowing?  Well, in this review, Elizabeth Hand recognizes several books and films that were very influential during the making of this book.  They’re all Japanese books or films, and one would have…

  • Another review

    Missed this one while I was traveling last week.  Another review of The Love We Share Without Knowing, this time from Paul DiFilippo over at SciFiWeekly: Fox maidens, mystical blindness and a host of other Asian supernatural oddities as seen through Western eyes.  This sophomore offering from the author of the well-received One for Sorrow (2007) is a…

  • And now the news

    Two things about The Love We Share Without Knowing this week: It’s been selected as one of the American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next and Notable Books for January 2009.  Thank you independent booksellers! And just today, Carolyn See reviews the book (and attempts to draw some conclusions about me perhaps as well) in the Washington…

  • Starred review in Booklist

    First starred review ever. Happy!

  • First Review

    Looks like the first review is in on The Love We Share Without Knowing, this one from Publishers Weekly.  I’ll be posting these, for better or worse (ala Jeff Ford), as they come in.  I’m pretty pleased with this one. The Love We Share Without Knowing Christopher Barzak. Bantam, $12 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-38564-9 Barzak’s…

  • Come to The Colored Museum

    The Oakland Center for the Arts is presenting the timeless play The Colored Museum, written by George C. Wolfe, director of the Broadway smash, Angels in America. The Colored Museum takes a satirical look at what “color” is in America today. Coupling irreverent wit with deep compassion, Wolfe’s play tackles and topples the myths and…

  • Locus Review of One for Sorrow

    Gary Wolfe reviewed One for Sorrow in Locus this month.  It was a feature review, and I loved reading what he made of the book.  Okay, so I love reading and hearing what anyone thinks about the book, but this was yet another one of those detailed, thoughtful reviews that I enjoy so much, that…

  • SF Site Review

    Paul Kincaid on One for Sorrow: Whether you read the ghost story as a metaphor for Adam’s psychological travails, or the upheavals in Adam’s family as a grim mirror for the haunting, this is a superbly structured, beautifully written coming of age story. It is, in its way, as powerful and affecting a debut as…

  • Washington Post Review

    A really pleasant surprise this morning. Though I don’t think it will appear in print until tomorrow, One for Sorrow has been reviewed in The Washington Post. And reviewed well! An excerpt: Traveling through this story with Adam is like a nightmare, but the kind that fascinates you so deeply that when you wake up,…

  • October Country

    At Bookslut Colleen Mondor reviews books for the very Bradburyesque time of year we’re entering:  October Country.  Included in that roundup are books by Neil Gaiman, Margo Lanagan, and my own One for Sorrow. Here’s an excerpt: What really impressed me about this book was how it was a familiar story on one level and…