Books by Barbara Browning and Complete Book Reviews
Barbara Browning, Two-Dollar Radio (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-0-9820151-9-3
Browning toys with form in her quirky debut, an epistolary love story that, despite a few misfires—the images, for instance, sprinkled throughout feel like unfortunate clip art—should hook readers whose tastes run to the unconventional. The narrator,
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Barbara Browning. Two Dollar Radio, $16 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-9832471-1-1
Set in New York City, Browning's media-saturated and humorous second novel (after The Correspondence Artist) follows Gray Adams, a 46-year-old gay African-American ex-ballet dancer, as he revises his dissertation on semaphore in dance during a post-d
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Barbara Browning. Emily Books (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-56689-468-5
In this charming, erudite, and often devastating metafictional novel, a writer and academic from New York carries on an intense email correspondence with an autistic musician in Germany—who may or may not be who he says he is. Set in the early 2010s
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