RaveThe Dallas Morning News\"The 15 just shy-of minimalist tales collected in San Antonio writer Andrew Porter’s latest book, The Disappeared, suggest that the marriage of existential crisis and domestic ennui, once the exclusive territory of arthouse auteurs like Ingmar Bergman or Louis Malle, can work convincingly as literary fiction set in a Riverwalk beer joint or a West Lake Hills patio party ... under Porter’s literary prowess, a comfortable get-together turns into a Dostoyevskian debate about murder and home invasion, and an infinity pool becomes a guilty grotto where a man and woman, ostensibly in mourning, negotiate the sorrows of an unrealized affair.\
Szilvia Molnar
RaveTexas ObserverAn engaging experiment in uncomfortable empathy that finds its tonal antecedents in cerebral body horror movies ... Molnar describes her character’s recovery with a detached, almost philosophical fatalism ... The inaugural example of a page-turner about postpartum depression, might also be the last word on the subject.
Juan Felipe Herrera
PositiveThe Austin ChronicleHerrera offers a kind of spiritual style guide for a time when solidarity itself is stymied by social distancing ... Cutting across class and ethnic lines that would pigeonhole his poetry, Herrera proclaims that \'this is not a poor-boy story/this is a pioneer story/this is your story,\' and recognizes that he used to think he was \'not American enuf/now it is the other way around.\' Every Day We Get More Illegal brackets its inspiration from figures of tenacious heroism such as Anne Frank and Nelson Mandela, lining their legacies with the blunt observation that: \'art is not enough/performance is not enough/something is missing don\'t push it to fill the vacuum.\'
