Circus Folk, by Michael Chin. Phoenix, Arizona: Hoot n Waddle, November 2019. 215 pages. $16.00, paper. The circus exists in…
Nance Van Winckel: “Hole in the Fence,” a hybrid collage/graphic/poem-story excerpt for Bad Survivalist
Nance Van Winckel‘s fifth book of fiction is Ever Yrs., a novel in the form of a scrapbook…
“A Cadaver Is Filled with Plenty of Material Activity”: Mike Corrao Talks to B.R. Yeager, Author of the Horror Novel NEGATIVE SPACE
CW: self-harm and suicide
Haunted Passages Flash Fiction by Christopher Linforth: “Disconnected”
WE CAME TO THE HOTEL to end it all. The building sat tucked in the mountains, part of an…
Lucy Zhang: “Raising Wings,” a flash fiction for Bad Survivalist
IT HAPPENED SLOWLY AT FIRST. Slits tracing shoulder blades down a pale canvas back, blood trickling like paint from…
“Resonance Is a Very Personal Thing”: Hillary Leftwich Chats with Teague von Bohlen, author of the flash fiction collection FLATLAND
Teague von Bohlen is a Midwestern man at heart, and his latest collection, Flatland, represents, both verbally as well as…
Noreen Hernandez on Tina May Hall’s debut novel THE SNOW COLLECTORS from Dzanc Books
The Snow Collectors, by Tina May Hall. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dzanc Books, February 2020. 224 pages. $16.95, paper. Tina May…
“Ten Songs, the Sound of Ambient Noise, and the Clanking of Chains”: A Playlist for Andrew Rihn’s REVELATION: AN APOCALYPSE IN FIFTY-EIGHT FIGHTS
My book Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights has the honor of being the first book released through Press 53’s…
Cassandra Luca Reviews Jonathan Blum’s short story collection THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES: “A richly detailed, mixed (and eyebrow-furrowing) bag”
The Usual Uncertainties, by Jonathan Blum. Rescue Press, November 2019. 344 pages. $18.00, paper. Jonathan Blum’s short story collection, The…
“The Academic Agenda,” a satirical story by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington for #NoMorePresidents
How much did you learn in school? There are hours when the subjectivity of days and nights overwhelms you. To…
Haunted Passages Fiction by Alexa T. Dodd: “His or Yours”
When you come home from work, the living room is littered with a grease-tattooed pizza box and dented cans…
What We’re Reading: January 2020
We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections every…
