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WHAT ARE YOU, a new novel by Lindsay Lerman, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald
In some ways, this feels like the book I’ve been waiting for my whole life. I have been calling myself…
Shannon Wolf on Bud Smith’s novel TEENAGER
Collectively, we’ve been obsessed with the Bonnie and Clyde narrative for decades. In the 1950s, we were a nation held…
A QUICK PRIMER ON WALLOWING IN DESPAIR, stories by Steve Gergley, reviewed by Kassie Bohannon
In A Quick Primer on Wallowing in Despair, Steve Gergley provides several perspectives on the titular experience, including everything from…
Bad Survivalist: Three Poems by Ryan Clinesmith
Apocalypse I An apocalypse is an enzyme of separation, salt turned sugar, apples oxidizing, blue death, survival as the catalyst…
THE YEAR OF THE HORSES, a memoir by Courtney Maum, reviewed by Shannon Wolf
For Courtney Maum, The Year of the Horses followed a period of intense internal struggle. A crisis of identity as…
“Bounty,” a Bad Survivalist Flash Fiction by Michele Finn Johnson
Bounty Marian’s halfway through her beginner Peloton class when she hears her husband, Luke, scream—What the hell? She slows her…
“The Mystery of Growing Up”: Robert Crooke Reviews WHEN ME AND GOD WERE LITTLE by Mads Nygaard
In this complex and personal novel, dedicated to his father, Mads Nygaard spins a web of mysteries around family secrets,…
MUSIC IS OVER!, a novella by Ben Arzate, reviewed by Carl Fuerst
In 2013, I visited my brother in NYC, where he’d moved to pursue a career as a chef. I was…
“Palmerland: BNA’s Ellis Island,” a short comic from The Future by Angus Woodward
Angus Woodward was raised by southerners in the Midwest and moved to Louisiana half a lifetime ago. His books of…
Bad Survivalist Short Story: “In the Afterlife Your Landlord Is a Witch” by Maggie Nye
In the Afterlife Your Landlord Is a Witch She does not wear a pointed hat around the property, except in…
Haunted Passages: “The Lamp,” a flash fiction by Scott Daughtridge DeMer
The Lamp Echo’s kids asked what secrets the lamp told. She didn’t answer, just stared at the bulb, lit to…
“Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Nobody Knows Anybody’s Name”: Dustin Holland on Steve Aylett’s HYPERTHICK #1
Picking up a piece of Steve Aylett’s work for the first time is always a confounding experience. His prose and…
I FAILED TO SWOON, a poetry collection by Nadia de Vries, reviewed by Fani Avramopoulou
Nadia de Vries’ I Failed to Swoon is a slim collection of poems that are by turns playful, brutal, and…
Three Collaborative Poems by Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias for Flavor Town USA
Party Favors I pretend it’s the fast and vicious future with a slow sax and 1991 looming overblack sheer tights,…
LA SERENISSIMA, a poetry collection by Wallace Barker, reviewed by Donald Ryan
Wallace Barker’s La Serenissima from Gob Pile Press. 19 chapters. 19 vacations. Each poem a single sentence, less than a…
Heavy Feather Review 