Regarding The Floating Order
"'poetic, lush, gripping'"
~Editor,
American Short Fiction
"A collection of rather disturbing short stories.
"'poetic, lush, gripping'"
~Editor,
American Short Fiction
"A collection of rather disturbing short stories.
'Enjoyed' really wouldn't be the right word.
'Impressed' would be nearer the mark."
"There are no safe, saccharine fairy tale endings.
This is contemporary Brothers Grimm for adults."
"It is no mean achievement to sustain such a story-like
lyricism over the long haul of a book-length collection.
This is a remarkable debut. A keeper that keeps keeping on.”
~ Michael Martone,
author of Michael Martone
The wonder of The Floating Order [. . .] is that it is impossible
to pigeonhole. At their heart the stories have a darkly
fantastic edge, but this aspect is more often
than not a component of the character's
view of the outside world.
~ John Kenny, co-editor of Aeon Press
and Albedo One
author of Michael Martone
The wonder of The Floating Order [. . .] is that it is impossible
to pigeonhole. At their heart the stories have a darkly
fantastic edge, but this aspect is more often
than not a component of the character's
view of the outside world.
~ John Kenny, co-editor of Aeon Press
and Albedo One
“The stories in Erin Pringle’s first collection possess the charm
of fairy tales, the wisdom of poems, the hope of prayers,
the weight of eulogies, and the intimacy of letters home.”
"There are no easy answers in The Floating Order,
only a sense of disturbance and dread,
offset by flashes of beauty. In this way, the book traps life
in the 21st century and displays it in all its awful radiance."
~Southwestern American Literature
"Just as her stories thrive on a kind of profitable restlessness, The Floating Order feels significant by virtue of its narrative, structural and thematic variety."
~John Regan, Women: A Cultural Review
"Just as her stories thrive on a kind of profitable restlessness, The Floating Order feels significant by virtue of its narrative, structural and thematic variety."
~John Regan, Women: A Cultural Review
- Click on the publication to view the review.
- Austin Chronicle - "The Great Escape"
- Dan Powell Fiction - "Short Story Challenge"
- John Kenny - "Book Review: The Floating Order" (April 2012)
- The Reading Experience - "I Wouldn't Explain" by Daniel Green
- Size Matters: The Mini-Comic Blog - Review of "The Only Child" by Shawn Hoke
- The Short Review - Review by Pauline Masurel
- Southwestern American Literature (Fall 2009) - Review on The Floating Order by Margo Wilson, XXXV,1: 89
- Texas Books in Review (Summer 2009) - Review by Rene LeBlanc, Vol XXIX, No 2.
- Women: A Cultural Review - "More Than Women and Cats" by John Regan, Volume 22, Issues 2-3, p 278-281
