Author: Heavy Feather
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Kat Solomon on Lindsay Lerman’s Debut Novel I’m From Nowhere
Lindsay Lerman’s debut novel I’m From Nowhere is a slim book that packs a powerful philosophical punch. Claire, somewhere in her thirties, has lost her husband John unexpectedly and the tragedy throws her into a full existential crisis. Meanwhile, two of her husband’s friends, both having expressed romantic interest in Claire, appear at John’s funeral,…
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“our next nominee should remember”: A Six-Poem Suite by Michael Chang
our next nominee should remember ne-VAD-daalways moisturizehand sanitizer is your friendand clorox, for when you get to the oval officecheck what city you’re innever wrestle with pigs. you both get dirty and the pig likes it.look out for numero unoavoid kitchenslose the friends from back homefail oftenthe opposite of armor is curiosityif you do the…
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“The Hypothetical Men Behind The Hypothetical Man”: Jesi Buell on a TRNSFR Books collaborative novel-in-stories by Paul Maliszewski & Ryan Weil (?)
In Buddhism, I have heard them refer to this as “monkey mind”—that endless chatter of what we are doing, what we are about, the way it goes, often beyond us, in the background or the foreground, the parade of images, and half-thoughts, noises, thoughts of smells, things that never happened to us, but appearing so.…
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The Book of Daniel, the fourth collection from Pitt Poetry Series Author Aaron Smith, reviewed by Esteban Rodríguez
If someone recommended a book titled The Book of Daniel, you might be inclined to believe that it has, in some shape or form, religious content and themes. Or you might suspect that this book was titled as such in order to be ironic, to subtly poke fun at religion and what it stands for…
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“Don’t Think About the Elephant”: An Interview with Andrew Farkas, Author of The Big Red Herring
Andrew Farkas is the author of a novel: The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), and two short fiction collections: Sunsphere (BlazeVOX [books]) and Self-Titled Debut (Subito Press). His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Florida Review, Western Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has been thrice…
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“The Man Who Smells of Lemons”: A Poem from the Future by Jude Marr
The man who smells of lemons dresses in brown and red. He stands, still as a bleeding tree, in a city parking lot. Every day he plants himself in his usual spot, where tarmac cracks radiate outward from his feet, like roots. Every day he stands and waits for a white-hot sun to crack open…
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Three Verses from the Vortex(t): Poetry from the Future by Jake Syersak
Identity Vortex [ “Can Rivers Be People Too? : Inside the Radical Movement to Gain Rights for Ecosystems—and Save the Environment.” (THE NEW REPUBLIC: May. 9. 2018) ] that this garden should fall may it fall less the weight of a sigh & more the weight of scythes the rivers read the lips of…
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A Story from The Future: “Affliction” by Angela Woodward
I have fled to a floating island of trash to tell you stories of the peaceful north woods. Here’s one—A man woke up early, disturbed by his uneasy conscience, and went down to the stream. It was still so dark, the path appeared as a blacker indentation in the ground, the leaves and sticks and mud…
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The Future Has Comics: “The Lonely Alien” by Marc S. Cohen
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. The Lonely Alien Marc S. Cohen is an artist, writer, and musician born in the United States and residing in Toronto, Canada. He makes little pen and ink drawings on existentially topical themes like alienation, dislocation and the construction of selfhood in a shifting semantic landscape. His…
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