Author: Heavy Feather
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“Sometimes the Quiet, More Chaste Gesture Is What Rouses the Heart”: A Conversation with Sara Lippmann by Megan Martin
A man who makes a living as a clown endures a difficult reunion with his teenage crush while working her son’s birthday party. A young girl struggles to forgive herself for an accident involving her younger brother. A father whose youth and reputation were destroyed by tragedy desperately seeks acceptance from his son’s friends. A…
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“Exile”: Evelyn Hampton’s Fictionalized Account of Reading The Fixed Stars, an experimental novel by Brian Conn
I was not allowed a lamp. This was to keep me from writing at night. But marking words on a page would not have been possible anyway. Everything had been taken from me—my books, paper, pens—all had to be left in a facility on the way to the prison. Worst for me was that they…
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Layman’s Report, a novel by Eugene Marten, reviewed by Michael Goroff
Before writing this review of Eugene Marten’s Layman’s Report, I sat down to watch Errol Morris’ documentary that focused on the same subject, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., for the first time in about eight years. Perhaps because I had read Layman’s Report, I was more struck after this…
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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, an academic study by Bernard Perron, reviewed by Jeremy Behreandt
There was a HOLE here.It’s gone now.—blood graffiti in Neely’s Bar, Silent Hill 2 I never did get to see Hellraiser, though I’d always pause to look at Pinhead’s gridded face on the VHS box at the grocery store, back when I was young and you could still rent VHS tapes at your local…
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How to Be Happy, short comics by Eleanor Davis, reviewed by Colette Arrand
*Ed.’s Note: click on image to view larger size. The best stories in Eleanor Davis’ debut Fantagraphics collection How to Be Happy are grounded in narratives that we are familiar with on a primal level. A group of men and women return to nature. A daughter, now a successful artist in the city, returns home…
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Contributors’ Corner: Jessica Alexander
Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Jessica Alexander, whose story “A Stranger Never Comes to Town” appears in 3.1. Jessica Alexander’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blip Magazine, Pank, The Collagist, Monkeybicycle, Big Lucks, Denver…
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The Pedestrians, new poetry by Rachel Zucker, reviewed by Jordan Sanderson
I came of age during the heyday of the compact disc, and one of the highlights of that era was the release of a “double album.” 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me comes to mind. Fans debated whether the discs should be heard separately as stand-alone albums or as a single album. No matter the answer…
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Echo Lake, a novel by Letitia Trent, reviewed by Gabino Iglesias
Any narrative that manages to create and successfully convey a distinctive mood deserves to be called atmospheric. However, there are novels that possess an atmosphere so strong, so inescapable that it turns the narrative into an unbelievably engrossing reading experience. More than atmospheric, these rare novels deserve to be called something far more powerful: mesmerizing.…
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Silence Once Begun, a novel by Jesse Ball, reviewed by Nick Francis Potter
I recently re-watched the famed Coen brother’s film, Fargo, with my wife, having last seen it in my teens and remembering virtually nothing about it. The film’s notorious for its opening text: “This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors,…
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