Christopher’s book review of Made to Break from author D. Foy, appears in American Book Review.
From the review: “Readers will wish they could grapple D. Foy in a game of Truth or Dare to hear about all of his inspirations and influences. Because that’s what the meat of this story is: a Truth or Dare game gone bad, in a remote cabin, in really bad weather with trees falling over.”
Christopher’s book review appears in New Orleans Review of ALL DECENT ANIMALS from author Oonya Kempadoo. This is her third novel and is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Here is the opening of the review of Oonya Kempadoo’s ALL DECENT ANIMALS:
Christopher’s book review appears in Saint Ann’s Review of A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS, from author Louise Aronson. An anticipated new literary voice from Bloomsbury USA, with an MFA in fiction and an MD from Harvard, this is Aronson’s debut, drawing from her experiences of becoming and being a doctor.
A book review appears in the New Orleans Review of WAYS OF GOING HOME, a novel by Alejandro Zambra. The novel is translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, and published by FSG in January 2013.
Christopher’s experimental-form nonfiction story “Weather Permitting” in PressBoardPress. The story is in a diagrammatic form that follows the Fibonnaci series of numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, etc., where each number is the sum of the previous two. The form of this story applies the Fibonnaci series to the paragraphs: each paragraph is numbered, and each paragraph’s number is its word count.
Christopher’s feature “Teeing Up for a Healthy Heart” ran as the cover story for Diabetes Self-Management’s Feb-Mar 2011 issue.
Christopher X. Shade had never picked up a golf club in his life before Spring 2009, when he and his wife signed up for lessons at Chelsea Piers, a multi-tiered driving range in Manhattan. He wrote about their attempts to learn the game in a series of articles on GOLF.com:
Learning to Play Golf #1: A Fan takes his first golf lesson at Chelsea Piers
Learning to Play Golf #2: Getting a Grip on a New Sport
Learning to Play Golf #3: Swinging through injuries and dismal weather
Learning to Play Golf #4: A falling leaf swing
Learning to Play Golf #5: The golf bug
Learning to Play Golf #6: Learning in the wrong direction
Christopher X. Shade