Joanna Ruocco

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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Mapping a utopia on the brink, THE MOTHERING COVEN's rare blend of charisma and pyrotechnic wordplay makes for an utterly original act of storytelling. Bertrand has disappeared from the house she shared with seven women-artists, scientists, and of co...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. For the characters in MAN'S COMPANIONS, the self is a degraded version of someone else. Fantasy is stymied by performance anxiety. Delayed gratification phones in a last-minute cancellation. The fictions in this collection are mongrel, troub...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. A COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC INCIDENTS explores the notion of intimate space and the domestic affairs that constitute the proper subject of female knowledge. The prose pieces echo one another, but instead of creating one narrative they rather in...

• Mar-2012
• / Literary
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Stark and vibrant, the two halves of this sutured book expose the Frankenstein-like scars of the assemblage we call “human.”
 In “Another Governess” a woman in a decaying manor tries to piece together her own story. In “The Least Blac...

• Oct-2014
• / General Fiction
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“Joanna Ruocco's Dan is a tiny novel that packs a massive punch.” -- Bustle Melba Zuzzo, erstwhile innocent of the male-heavy hamlet of Dan, a town located in the foothills of ... somewhere? ... finds herself in a rut. In fact she was probably ...

• May-2016
• / Fantasy
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No. 12, a previously unpublished selection from Joanna Ruocco's The Boghole and the Beldame, is a pastoral hallucination--more spell than story--that harks back to the waking/walking life of an archetypal dreamer. Afoot in the muck of language its...

• May-2017
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Art. THE WEEK presents models of minds shaped by the 21st century American realities that they also construct. The stories are unconventional in their arcs and uses of characterization, and in their fore...

• Aug-2017
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Joanna Ruocco's THE WHITMIRE CASE is a detective story on its ear. A journalist is recruited by a Sheep farmer to investigate an incident involving a young woman who has suddenly been forgotten by her family and community. Nathan Ruck and hi...

• Sep-2018
• / General Fiction
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Your Impossible Voice #18 features work by Joanna Ruocco, Miguel Barnet (translated by George Henson), Ricardo Piglia (translated by Robert Croll), Lise Gauvin (translated by Aliya Esmail), Dia Felix, Brooks Sterritt, Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada, Molly...