Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

Big Bad by Whitney (Martin) Collins ’95

October 1, 2021

Tags Alumni Book

(Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books, 2021)

Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and boasting a 2020 Pushcart-winning story, this collection of 13 tales is described as “part domestic horror, part flyover gothic.” Collins’ characters — including a young woman who must give birth to future iterations of herself; a widower who kills a horse en route to his grandson’s circumcision; a summer camper who is haunted by a glass eye and motorcycle crash — must choose to fight or flee the “big bad” that dwells within us all.