Author: Heavy Feather

Contributors’ Corner: Nathan Blake

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Nathan Blake, whose story “When Us Men Tell” appears in 3.1. Nathan Blake’s first chapbook, Going Home Nowhere Fast, is available from Winged City Chapbook Press, and you can find some…
Made to Break, a novel by D. Foy, reviewed by James R. Gapinski

Foy’s Made to Break follows a group of friends on vacation. They are staying at a cabin in the woods. And like any good cabin in the woods, it becomes more perilous with every page. Readers are treated to storms, mudslides, car wrecks, grave illness, and injury. On top of that, factor in a cryptic…
The Sea-God’s Herb, literary criticism by John Domini, reviewed by Nichole L. Reber

College lit crit courses. Perhaps that’s the best purpose for John Domini’s The Sea-God’s Herb. His compendium of essays and criticism from 1975 through this year is a rather heavy-handed version of literary (and other) criticism and reminds me of a great deal of material read in my grad school writing classes—in other words, it…
“On RoboCop”: A Digressive and Somewhat Personal Essay on Beauty, Poetics, and Aesthetics by Sampson Starkweather

The 2011 Kickstarter video to build Detroit a giant statue of RoboCop is, despite what anyone may tell you, one of humanity’s and art’s greatest achievements. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imaginationstation/detroit-needs-a-statue-of-robocop The video is a ten minute rap in a British accent which maps out via mad verbal flow the plot of RoboCop from beginning to end, with sound…
“Reading Carl Dimitri’s Paintings”: An Art Essay by Evelyn Hampton

Dear reader, this essay is organized into sections; each section is titled after the series of paintings it talks about. All of the paintings referred to below can be seen here. * PORTALS The paintings in this series are made of openings in color and line. I think of the fistulas that form in the…
Contributors’ Corner: Tim Kahl

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Tim Kahl, whose poems “The Patron Saint of All Lost Causes” and “Starring: A Town at War” appear in 3.1. Tim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (CW Books, 2009) and The Century…
“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…
“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…
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…