Author: Heavy Feather
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“Print Is Not Dead”: Peter Valente on A Poetics of the Press: Interviews with Poets, Printers, & Publishers
A Poetics of the Press: Interviews with Poets, Printers, & Publishers contains sixteen interviews Kyle Schlesinger did with publishers from the United States, England, Germany, and Australia. Most of the interviews were conducted in person and later transcribed, while the rest were done using the computer. The first of these interviews was with Steve Clay,…
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“Back Alleys and Hidden Corners”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Brian Evenson, Author of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
Brian Evenson has for many years been one of America’s chief practitioners of innovative dark fiction. His work regularly adopts and breaks free of sci-fi and horror tropes. It captures our oldest fears and bleakest futures in admirably hard, detached, concise prose. It freaks me out, and I love it. Among the numerous plaudits for…
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“Slipping the Fox’s Trap with Hannah Arendt”: Tiffany Troy Converses with Joshua Corey
Joshua Corey is a poet, novelist, translator, and critic. Influenced by Charles Olson, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Duncan, Corey pushes formal structure towards fracture, engaging themes of failure, desire and the pastoral. His latest book, Hannah and the Master (MadHat Press, 2021), is his fifth full-length poetry collection which takes on the story between Nazi…
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Ire Land (a Faery Tale), a mixed-genre fantasy by Elisabeth Sheffield, reviewed by Noreen Hernandez
Elisabeth Sheffield uses exquisite language and control over a palimpsest of mixed genres in Ire Land (a Faery Tale). She vacuum-seals a layered plot into a fantasy world of comfortable relationships within a morality-play type story that hints at, then rejects any expected outcome for the main character, Sandra Dorn. Sheffield builds a world where…
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Bad Survivalist Short Story: “Bear, Flower, Ferryman,” by Margaret Redmond Whitehead
For a long time that morning, the bear occupied herself with a cardboard box. Its walls were plushy and wet—soaked from the night’s rain—but rigid enough that it held its shape. It was on its side, with both ends open, creating a tunnel that was just barely too small for a bear to pass through.…
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“A Storytelling Masterclass”: Gillian Perry on Nana Nkweti’s Walking on Cowrie Shells (Graywolf Press)
Nana Nkweti is unafraid. Unafraid to interlace myth and reality. Unafraid to embrace the polyphony of voices that tell her stories. Unafraid to breathe life into characters of differing ages, careers, and moral compasses. Nkweti’s debut collection, Walking on Cowrie Shells, captures the experiences of the fearless—water goddesses, teenage graphic novelists, Akata sisters, immigrants, all…
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Andrew Farkas Reviews Adam Tipps Weinstein’s The Airship: Incantations (FC2)
In Thomas Pynchon’s V., some of the characters, Benny Profane in particular, engage in “yo-yoing,” an activity that involves going back and forth between two places for no real reason. A casual contest starts up wherein the competitors see who can yo-yo the farthest, normally won by those who fall asleep on the subway. In…
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Outré, a “Hörnblowér” novel by D. Harlan Wilson, reviewed by Evan St. Jones
Intro. The world building in D. Harlan Wilson’s Outré slaps you in the face during its introduction and never shows mercy. Thrusted first upon us is a long cast list featuring fictional actors as well as figures recognizable historically and pop culturally. From there, we’re thrown down a rabbit hole into a dystopian landscape operated…
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Three Poems for Haunted Passages by Eli Dunham
DIDYOUKNOW i watch my body lie down on the floor next to me.i amnowhereat thedinner table yet you speak to me ami themovie? i amupside down driving my car, the world claustrop hobic &glimmer ing.who is the time today? i was born in yesterday.is myhead wrapped in cotton? did you knowi didn’tExist?you think it’sa badthing, through a glass wall…
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