Phillip F. Clark

There’s a postcard I sent to a friend once, which reads: “The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.” If karma is a boomerang, nostalgia is a noose. The urge to look back, revisit the past, to try to relive or unravel it, is often the dangerous realm of unfinished business. Paul Russell’s startling and incisive new novel, Immaculate Blue, brings back Anatole, Lydia, Chris, and Leigh–the four characters he introduced in his first novel, The Salt Point, as they come together almost 30 years later to exhume remnants of their past with each […]