What follows is the seventh in J. A. Tyler’s full-press of Subito Press, a series of reviews appearing at [PANK] over the course of 2012, covering every title available from Subito Press. J. A. Tyler’s previous full-press reviews have covered every title from Calamari Press (at Big Other) and from Publishing Genius Press (at Mud Luscious Press).

In comparison to earlier winners in the fiction category of Subito’s annual competition, DeBrincat’s Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night is a much more exposition-based collection, leaning far more heavily on traditional beginning / middle / end structures for each of its stories. This, in and of itself, makes Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night a new sort of playing ground for Subito, and a place to pick up new readers who might otherwise be daunted by more aggressively unique voices like Adam Peterson’s My Untimely Death or Andrew Farkas’s Self-Titled Debut. However, this also means that because DeBrincat supports her stories by traditional constructions, her writing is a bit more prone to predictability. Continue reading →