book notes: largehearted boy

Vast and Riotous: On Rion Amilcar Scott’s Insurrections via the millions

Insurrections: Rion Amilcar Scott’s Debut Short Story Collection Hits All the Right Notes via the root

18 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS AUGUST via the lit hub

100 Books to Read for the Rest of 2016 via brooklyn magazine

Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2016 Book Preview via the millions

Kirkus reviews

A wildly impressive and ambitious collection of stories, Rion Amilcar Scott’sInsurrections affirms that it can be the smallest human choices—of tenderness, kindness, and cruelty, that make our people, and our world, what it is.
— Lisa Williams, Associate Professor of English at Centre College and author of Gazelle in the House


Scott is a deeply talented writer who has managed that most precarious of fusions while dealing with important subject matter: a recognition of life’s complexity combined with writing that sings.
— Courtney Brkic, author of The First Rule of Swimming