5-star review from Goodreads reviewer Paula. I received this book through First Reads. It isn’t easy to review This Languid Earth – and I mean that in an incredibly good way. First, because of the way the story unfolds, almost anything to be said with regard to plot becomes riddled with spoilers – and this […]

Review for “All the Lights That Have Shone” by Mary C. Moore McCormack is a wonderful writer. This collection really showcases the elegance and maturity of his writing. Although many of the stories were a bit too bitter or cynical for me, I still rated it highly for the prose alone. If this book lands […]

Paul McCormack’s All the Lights That Have Shone is a quietly ambitious collection of short stories. To describe the collection as hit-and-miss is a bit unfair; when the stories hit, they hit spectacularly, and when they miss, they miss for grasping slightly beyond their reach. Overall, this is a solid, occasionally wonderful collection. We are […]

You get tricked by these stories, by the voices; by the way the sentences deliver themselves to your eyes, and ears. Someone is talking, someone you feel like you know, someone who is certainly not a threat, and suddenly you find yourself sitting with that someone, one of Paul’s people, in a nondescript caf�, a […]

This is an interesting body of work, well written and at times intriguing. The author opens All The Lights… with a fairly heartfelt introduction about himself and the stories. The first story is Iodine, which takes a little time to get to the nub of the tale which is the main character, Grant, hasn’t been […]

Review of “All The Lights That Have Shone” from the Midwest Book Review‘s Small Press Bookwatch Normal is an absurd concept. “All the Lights That Have Shone” is a collection of simple, poignant, yet offbeat stories from Paul McCormack as he derives from his life and the countless people he’s met that try to be […]