This week’s vintage selection is one from a folio that has only been featured in some of our more recent issues, including #21, Spring 2015, but is doubtless just as important a genre of the literary cannon as any other: the review. In “An Eroticism of the Eyes” Stephanie Dickinson offers her perspective on the fiction novel The Petals of Your Eyes by author Aimee Parkison. Dickinson’s review has been selected as today’s vintage feature because even without having read Parkison’s book, her review provides such a captivating examination of the characters, the setting, and the implications of the story’s dark allegory that it makes for a great read on its own.

Stephanie Dickinson was raised in rural Iowa and has passed time in Wyoming, Oregon, Minnesota, Texas, and Louisiana. She now lives in New York City. Along with Rob Cook, she publishes and edits the new literary journal Skidrow Penthouse. Her novel, Half Girl, won the Hackney Award (Birmingham-Southern) for best unpublished novel. It is now published in a limited edition by Spuyten Duvyil. For links and information about Dickinson’s work, visit her website at stephaniedickinson.net

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