Author: Heavy Feather
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“What It Would Be Like to Fall”: A Conversation with Brian Evenson by Daniel Miller
Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, including the forthcoming story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press, 2016). Coffee House Press will also be reissuing his American Library Association’s award-winning novel, Last Days, as well as two more novels: The Open Curtain and Father of Lies. He has translated…
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Fiction Review: Ian Denning Reviews Margaret Malone’s People Like You
The title story of Margaret Malone’s debut collection begins with an unhappy married couple getting invited to a surprise party, getting lost on the way, and arguing in the car. Malone draws the argument out for longer than most writers would—three and a half pages of the couple snapping at each other for missing the…
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“My Own Sad Little Kind of Prayer”: An Interview with Gregory Lawless by Jack Christian
The poems of Gregory Lawless’s Far Away (Red Mountain Press, 2015/Red Mountain Poetry Prize) all deal with various figurations of distance—distance as a bringer of insight, as a form of estrangement, and as a synonym of loss and uncertainty. As these poems rove over the ruined fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, we encounter a speaker who…
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Three Poems by Gary Glauber
Found and Lost She was pasted firmly in the past,a trivial footnote in a weather-beaten journalgathering dust, unread on a high closet shelf,a brief coupling that held sweet silk memoriesbetween torrents of mood swings and accusations.She wore jealousy and lace, foolishly believingboth might strengthen a shaky relationship.It ended ugly, a paean to passion gone awry.Today…
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The Mad Feast, an ecstatic food tour by Matthew Gavin Frank, reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Let me just say at the outset that The Mad Feast is a frenzied, delirious ride of a book. This collection of fifty essays travels around the country, through Matthew Gavin Frank’s mind, and into the nether regions of America’s culinary heritage. It’s an exploration of pleasure and sexuality, food and loss, slavery and cannibalism,…
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Poetry Review: Sandra Hunter Reads Antidote for Night by Marsha de la O
Poetry is no easy way to understand why we are here on this planet; . . . A poet achieves the essential on the page, for a moment, and then that moment is gone. —Ilya Kaminsky: A Conversation, with Tatyana Mishel, Cranky Literary Journal As a UK transplant, I’ve lived in California since…
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Two Poems by Brian Beatty
Coyote Coyote—for Tony Fitzpatrick That forest that goesunseen for its own trees is full of mirrors, too: obscure, obsceneAmerican mirrors baring our teeth. We like whatever we notice oncewe dare to re-open our eyes. But those dark unknowns we still fearrun wild through our veins. And in the proud American waybullets whiz by our heads.…
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Fiction Review: Zachary Kocanda Reads Softby Ryan Werner
There’s not much to writing rock and roll music. A popular quote says all you need is three chords and the truth. Researching this quote, I learned that it was about country music (from Harlan Howard), but it applies to rock and roll, too. In fact, Lou Reed said one chord was fine, and two…
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“Stealing Breath”: An Interview with Bryn Chancellor by Erin Flanagan
Bryn Chancellor’s collection When Are You Coming Home? won the 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her stories have appeared in Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. She has received the Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award in fiction, literary fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Arizona Commission…
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