Check out Mike McClelland’s review of Matthew Binder’s HIGH IN THE STREETS at Heavy Feather Review!
An excerpt:
It takes great talent and confidence for a writer to embrace these tropes and then to use them against themselves, and I’m happy to report that Binder succeeds admirably in that pursuit. Once readers make it through the first forty-odd pages, which, like an ambitious television pilot, overflow with bombastic characters and boozy high jinks but serve mostly as set-up, they will be rewarded with a nuanced yarn, one overflowing with humor, satire, and, more significantly, undercurrents of sadness, desperation, and even hope, all of which will stick with them well beyond the final pages.
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