Category Archives: Susan Mccarty

For those of you who couldn’t be in Iowa City, Susan McCarty’s reading at Prairie Lights is now online! She reads “Indirect Object,” a story we loved so much, we published it in apt.

Speaking of love, the admiration for Anatomies keeps rolling in!

First, an interview in The Iowa Gazette with Rob Cline, who says the collection “is filled with striking stories told in a variety of forms.”

And an excerpt from a review by Brenda Peynado at Wellesley Magazine: “The book, itself a work of art, asks, ‘Where is the soul located?’ The stories point back to ourselves, our hearts, our stomachs, and respond, ‘Everywhere.'”

Check out the interview and the review and, if you haven’t already, pick up a copy of Anatomies today!

Susan McCarty’s Anatomies has received glowing praise from NewPages! The first and last paragraphs from Katy Haas’s review:

“If bodies are temples, Susan McCarty is an expert demolitionist. In Anatomies, McCarty breaks these temples down, rips through drywall and flesh, tears sexuality and humanity from their hinges, and leaves behind the barebones, the nervous system, the warm, buzzing electrical impulses buried beneath the exteriors of the temples housing her characters. 

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Anatomies is not a collection for the reader who doesn’t want to get their hands dirty. McCarty invites us to pick up a sledgehammer alongside her and give it a swing—to break down the walls of her characters while tunneling through our own deconstructed temples where we might find the things we’ve hidden or forgotten in ourselves. So go get your hands dirty, reader. Break your temple down.”

You can read the full review at NewPages.com and order your copy of Anatomies here!

Publishers Weekly on Susan McCarty’s Anatomies:

“McCarty’s characters often show poor judgment and make bad decisions, but her affection and sympathy for them is never in doubt….McCarty’s deft blend of drama and humor always rings true; there’s not an out-of-place moment in this resonant collection.”

You can read the full review here, and pick up a copy of the collection here.

Susan McCarty’s debut collection received a glowing write-up in Esquire!

“Judging from the wry observations in McCarty’s first short story collection, the author seems like the type of person who would laugh at a funeral–which is a compliment. As McCarty reveals, what’s funny is funny, what’s sad is sad, and personal moments that pang are often both.”

Read the full review here, and don’t forget to order your copy of Anatomies here!