Between the Legs

Between the LegsBetween the Legs is the novel that won the 2015 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. The novel moves geographically: a couple travels from the Buchenwald concentration camp through Weimar, Prague, Vienna, and Lucerne to a Zen retreat in the Swiss Alps, carrying grief, addiction, and sexual obsession the whole way, with Freud and Kafka standing behind the prose. The award judge that year, James Chapman, chose it "over many other worthy

Where Hugunin's other JEF criticism anthologizes decades of separate essays

all through a child's eyes

Meanwhile is the third novel in Frederick Mark Kramer's New York cycle

Queensland

The method underneath it is journalistic: Leventhal frames her fiction around the four questions a reporter asks

The compression is the substance

It can be paid here

Ashy Red Girl falls from the sky and re-enters Kimberly's brain

as "akin to proving a theorem

The work is offered as prose that can rub elbows with the great and hold its own

a rearranged paragraph

Leventhal the 2022 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel