Author: Heavy Feather
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Fiction Review: Lixian Ng on Matt Meets Vik by Timothy Willis Sanders
Matt Meets Vik is probably the second novel I have read that is post-9/11. It is also the first novel I have read that has recognized the existence of Nokia phones. By the time those things came around, I believe I was still in elementary school. My memory of them was vague. The events of…
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“The Bullet in My Brain.” a literary enquiry by Coe Douglas for Bad Survivalist
Moments before the bullet that tore through his brain was fired, Anders was lost in a fit of laughter brought on by the surly bank robber’s use of the word capiche. As the narrator in Tobias Wolff’s short story “Bullet in the Brain” explained: He covered his mouth with both hands and said, “I’m sorry,…
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An Object You Cannot Lose, an online chapbook by Sam Martone, reviewed by Phil Spotswood
In Sam Martone’s An Object You Cannot Lose, the reader becomes both gamer and player—their will caught somewhere in the strange place between the pixels, a process that creates a new reality. The reader travels through various levels of an interlocked reality the further they read into this piece. Beginning as soon as they click…
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Fiction Review: Mercedes Lucero on A Jellyfish for Every Name by David Rawson
Thought-provoking, ethereally haunting, and at time, surreal, David Rawson’s A Jellyfish for Every Name presents readers with five short stories that explore human nature at its rawest and most intriguing moments. The collection opens with “Touch Me,” which centers around seventeen-year-old Moses’ innocence and longing. In his adolescence, he wants only two things: to “make…
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“Animals Appear out of Nowhere”: An Interview with David James Poissant by Dana Diehl
David James Poissant’s debut short story collection, The Heaven of Animals (Simon & Schuster) was released last year to great critical acclaim. Among its accolades, the collection was named one of Amazon’s Best Short Story Collections of 2014, One of Atlanta Journal Constitution’s 9 Best Books of 2014, Best Short Story Collection of the Year by Tweed’s Magazine, Winner of GLCA…
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Fiction Review: Brett Beach Reads The Doors You Mark Are Your Own, a novel by Okla Elliot & Raul Clement
A long novel is a different beast. In its pages, a whole world may be contained; characters arrive and depart, suggesting lives begun long before; a reader can spend days, even weeks, tracking the progress of a plot that winds and dips and twists, building inexorably toward an explosive finish. The first book of The…
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The Living Method, a poetry collection by Sara Nicholson, reviewed by Sarah Katz
The cover of The Living Method is reminiscent of that painting, “Vertumnus,” by Guiseppe Arcimboldo, (ca. 1590)—so reminiscent that, save for its red monochromatic color scheme, it’s a close replica of the original. Fertility, this image expresses (as the original does), with all its grape lips and hair and potato cheeks, and yet, the redness…
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Faulty Predictions, stories by Karin Lin-Greenberg, reviewed by Erin Flanagan
Karin Lin-Greenberg’s collection, Faulty Predictions, winner of the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, wonderfully captures the moments when characters begin to see beyond their preconceptions into a fuller view of their lives and others’. The moments themselves are both large and small—ranging from a high school student’s suicide to a sister and brother’s…
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“Sprezzatura Is as Sprezzatura Doesn’t”: Daniel Scott Parker on Mike Young’s New Poetry Collection
“Years, that’s what years do / Yours, that’s what yours do.” This is the kind of tautological ticket stub we get upon entry. Where is is the same as does. But sprezzatura is not what Sprezzatura does, I can promise you that. The blurb from BOMB on the back of the book is a clever…
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