Author: Heavy Feather
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Search History, a new novel by Eugene Lim, reviewed by Michael Wong
There’s a line in Eugene Lim’s Search History that is repeated several times throughout the novel. A character declares something they’ve heard impossible and their interlocutor quickly retorts: “Of course it isn’t.” And the matter, whatever it is, is simply left at that. It’s a refrain that tells us a bit about the characters involved,…
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ANGEL HOUSE, a novel by David Leo Rice, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald
ANGEL HOUSE is the kind of novel that will mean something different to everyone who reads it, and indeed, will likely mean something different to me if I read it again in a few years, and yet again if I read it a third time somewhere down the line (all distinct possibilities). Because of this, I’ll go ahead…
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“Museum at the End of the World”: Stephen Scott Whitaker on Jennifer Nelson’s third poetry collection, Harm Eden
Jennifer Nelson’s third book, Harm Eden, is a warning. Composed largely in short free verse containers, Harm Eden’s exigency is collapse, state violence, wrapped in a culture that has become more and more disposable and absurd, a culture that contributes to systemic inequity, and perpetuates late-stage capitalism. Nelson gives us a representation of balkanized Western…
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“A Scream in the Ear from a Passing Car”: Dustin Cole on In Singing, He Composed a Song, a new novella by Jeremy Stewart
Jeremy Stewart’s newly released experimental novella is set in late 1990s Prince George, British Columbia, during the chilly month of November. It features the high school student protagonist, John Stevenson. John’s a rocker, dope smoker, cigarette “breather,” poet, and slacker. John’s a walker. He operates as the ponderous fulcrum of In Singing, He Composed a…
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“A Veiling and Unveiling and Veiling Again”: An Interview with Elisabeth Sheffield by Marcus Pactor
Elisabeth Sheffield is the sort of writer most writers only hope to become: a ventriloquist offering up voice after voice. Each of her voices expands and complicates her readers’ view of her fictional world. Together her voices suggest the impossibility of ever fully seeing either fictional or real world. But hers are not Beckettian voices…
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Pink Mountain on Locust Island, a debut experimental novel by Jamie Marina Lau, reviewed by Shyanne Hamrick
In author and music producer Jamie Marina Lau’s debut experimental novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island, fifteen-year-old protagonist Monk lives with her “grumpy brown couch” of a father—a washed-up art teacher who spends his days watching nature documentaries, shouting game show answers, and catering to his budding Xanax dependency. When she meets artistic high school…
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Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, a collection by Jackson Bliss, reviewed by Titus Chalk
In Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Jackson Bliss sets out to stun. Each of the 13 stories in this collection (and the interstitial texts between them) is a reimagining of what a story might be, a subversion of form, a feat of linguistic pyrotechnics, that often portrays mixed-race identity or attempts to establish a…
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Psychros, a CLASH Books novel by Charlene Elsby, reviewed by Alex Carrigan
When a person commits suicide, is it merely the final event of the victim’s life, or is it actually the first event in the remainder of the lives of those they left behind? The act of ending one’s life is never just a singular choice, but the result of numerous choices that doesn’t leave just…
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“A Dream of Trees and Television and Ghosts,” a nonfiction excerpt from Sarah Kornfield’s The True: A Trilogy of Ghosts
“A Trilogy of Ghosts” is a composite of three books called The True. In 2019, world-renowned Romanian theater director Alexandru Darie died, the news shocking the creative world. Bringing Darie and Romania vividly to life, The True also tells the story of one courageous woman’s cutting through a con artist’s web of lies that mirror global corruption.…
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