Author | Stephanie M. Wytovich Book Reviews

Folklore and the Perfect Nightgown with Taisia Kitaiskaia

May 9, 2021

Folklore and the Perfect Nightgown with Taisia Kitaiskaia

I first discovered Taisia Kitaiskaia when I read her book Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers. It completely opened...

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Growing Alongside White Oleander: A Review

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Apr 12, 2021

Growing Alongside White Oleander: A Review

We recently read White Oleander by Janet Fitch in one of the graduate classes I’m teaching this spring, and I was so excited to fall in...

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Stephanie M. Wytovich

Feb 8, 2021

Spending the Weekend With Ghosts

I started reading Gwendolyn Kiste in 2018 and I’ve been steadily devouring her work ever since. Her words are like a storm cloud, like...

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Walking in Greenhollow Wood with Emily Tesh

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Jan 1, 2021

Walking in Greenhollow Wood with Emily Tesh

I'm picky when it comes to reading book series, mostly because I have no self-control, so if I find myself in love with a world, that’s...

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Stephanie M. Wytovich

Oct 6, 2020

Happily Buried by Jessica Drake-Thomas

Resurrection is a favorite theme of mine when it comes to storytelling. I just love the intensity of it and how it pushes boundaries and...

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McHugh Gives Birth to the Monstrous Feminine in New Poetry Collection: A Complex Accident of Life

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Sep 22, 2020

McHugh Gives Birth to the Monstrous Feminine in New Poetry Collection: A Complex Accident of Life

If I had to pick my top three favorite books of all time, they would be: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson¸ The...

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Into the Forest and All the Way Through: A Review

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Sep 13, 2020

Into the Forest and All the Way Through: A Review

With everything that’s been happening in 2020, I’ve had a bit of an atypical reading year so far. That’s not to say that I haven’t been...

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Exploring the Horror of the Female Domestic: A Review of The Stepford Wives

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Jul 29, 2020

Exploring the Horror of the Female Domestic: A Review of The Stepford Wives

Oh, how I adore this book. I’ve read it twice now and I’m looking forward to teaching it in the fall and talking about how this novel...

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Exploring Area X: A Journey Into the Sublime

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Jul 9, 2020

Exploring Area X: A Journey Into the Sublime

When the film adaptation of Annihilation came out in 2018, I was beyond excited, and not just because Natalie Portman was playing the...

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Porsha Olayiwola Doesn't Shimmer, She Shines

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Jun 19, 2020

Porsha Olayiwola Doesn't Shimmer, She Shines

I love Button Poetry. In fact, they are one of my favorite poetry presses, and I buy from them as much as possible and usually read...

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To Catch a Scream Mid-Mouth: A Review of Saba Syed Razvi’s Heliophobia

Stephanie M. Wytovich

May 11, 2020

To Catch a Scream Mid-Mouth: A Review of Saba Syed Razvi’s Heliophobia

I always try to spend a good amount of time in the dealer’s room at conventions, and while I didn’t get as much book time as I would have...

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Wonder, Mischief, and Whimsy in Clive Barker's Abarat

Stephanie M. Wytovich

May 4, 2020

Wonder, Mischief, and Whimsy in Clive Barker's Abarat

I’m a big Clive Barker fan, and I credit him to being one of the authors who made me want to start writing in the first place. The...

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Behind Closed Doors, The Grayer Twins Wait.

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Apr 4, 2020

Behind Closed Doors, The Grayer Twins Wait.

This semester in the Western Connecticut State University MFA program, I’m teaching David Mitchell’s novel, Slade House. We’ve been...

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Opening Doors, Discovering Worlds: A Review of Seanan McGuire's Come Tumbling Down

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Mar 26, 2020

Opening Doors, Discovering Worlds: A Review of Seanan McGuire's Come Tumbling Down

I’ve made it no secret that one of—if not my absolute—favorite book series is by Seanan McGuire. Her Wayward Children series is the...

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Regret or Something More Animal: Book Review

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Feb 27, 2020

Regret or Something More Animal: Book Review

When I saw that Clash Books was publishing a collection of poetry by Heather Bell, I was immediately excited, so excited in fact, that I...

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Stephanie M. Wytovich

Jan 24, 2020

HIDING BODIES WITH SAMANTHA KOLESNIK

The cover for True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik grabbed me by the eyes and dragged me to Amazon, where I quickly purchased the book. I...

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Love, Knives, and a High Body Count: That's What Sisters Are Made of.

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Dec 31, 2019

Love, Knives, and a High Body Count: That's What Sisters Are Made of.

I’ve had My Sister, The Serial Killer my Oyinkan Braithwaite on my TBR list since it came out in 2017, and by chance, I saw it at Half...

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Stephanie M. Wytovich

Dec 18, 2019

Dancing Barefoot with Patti Smith

For me, reading Patti Smith is a spiritual, enlightening experience, and I know that sounds like a tall order, but her words and music...

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Stephanie M. Wytovich

Oct 30, 2019

In this Garden of Butterflies

I recently read Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R....

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Tea, Sympathy, and The Witches of New York

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Sep 12, 2019

Tea, Sympathy, and The Witches of New York

One book that I had on my TBR list for far too long was The Witches of New York by Ami McKay. I made this one a priority last month and...

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