Christopher Barzak

Category: Reviews

  • Datlow’s issue of Subterranean

    I’m reading the Ellen Datlow edited issue of Subterranean lately, and am having a really good time. The magazine could easily be the core of an awesome horror anthology, which is of course one of Ellen Datlow’s specialities, so it’s no surprise to find exciting, well-written and disturbing stories in this issue. Here’s the lowdown…

  • Vindicator Review

    A very nice review of One for Sorrow in one of the local papers: Chris Barzak’s first novel, “One for Sorrow,” is like a window into the metaphysical world. Told through the voice of a troubled but honest teen, it’s depiction of what it’s like to be unhappily dead is so believable, it’s like a…

  • Scifi.com Review

    So I said “um” a lot in my first ever radio interview. Oh well. Paul Di Filippo had great things to say about One for Sorrow in his review over at Scifi.com: Surely the current era is a renaissance of ghostly tales. The work of Peter Beagle and Tim Powers and James Blaylock and Charles…

  • Village Voice Review

    Elizabeth Hand (Elizabeth Hand!) reviewed One for Sorrow in the Village Voice: One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak’s lovely, melancholy, offbeat first novel, affectingly captures the emotional centrifuge that is adolescence, with sex and longing the fixed axes around which everything else spins. Fifteen-year-old Adam McCormick’s classmate Jamie is too weird and too much of a…

  • Long and narrow like a coffin

    Midori Snyder over at the Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts has written a review of One for Sorrow: While reading One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak’s remarkable debut novel, I was reminded of a quote from Danish author, Tove Ditlivson: “Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and we do not get out of it…

  • Something Right

    This is the kind of review that makes me feel like I did something right.

  • Dear World

    I am in New York City vacationing at the moment. So I won’t be around here, and won’t be quick to respond via email, for the next week (and for several days thereafter, as I’m going to be going from NYC to Cleveland to teach at the Imagination Writing Workship at Cleveland State University till…

  • I want my 21st Century Gothic. Do you?

    I recently read a review of the latest Realms of Fantasy at Tangent, and this was the review for my story: “Little Miss Apocalypse” by Christopher Barzak is a bit of a downer, but I can’t say the author didn’t warn us. It’s about enduring love, but a rather sick form of it, in my…

  • Way Cool Review

    Wow, I just came across the most awesome review of Interfictions, the anthology of interstitial fiction edited by Theodora Goss and Delia Sherman, and the reviewer said some really wonderful things about my story, “What We Know About the Lost Families of —- House”: The 19 stories contained within Interfictions serve as examples but not…