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richardleis's review
5.0
With TV Girls—six incredible flash fiction stories in one fantastic chapbook—Dana Diehl's compassion for reality TV stars flattened by the medium recovers their individuality and complexity by exploring in gorgeously-crafted prose how they are vulnerable, exploited, and managing the relentless attention. Each story seems to end with a distortion that reminds us that these people are human beings with dimensions: zooming out to TV pixels, the glow of emergency lights, "something that's not there," dreams of becoming the monster the audience really wants to see, etc. TV Girls is a funny and shocking, timely and wise, blistering and compassionate work, one not to be missed.
mgdoherty's review
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
A gem of a book. I wish I remembered how this collection got on my radar but I’m so glad it did! Dana Diehl will definitely be author I’d like to read more from.
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