Author: Heavy Feather
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In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place, stories by Jessica Hollander, reviewed by Nick Kocz
I’ve heard it said that the purpose of the first few pages of a novel is to teach the reader how to read the novel. Short story collections, understandably, operate a little differently, yet in the opening sentence of Jessica Hollander’s In These Times the Home is a Tired Place, the lyrical short story collection…
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![[[there.]], a trash diary mediation by Lance Olsen, reviewed by Jeremy Behreandt](https://heavyfeatherreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/frontcover.jpg?w=500)
[[there.]], a trash diary mediation by Lance Olsen, reviewed by Jeremy Behreandt
;;;; [[there.]] embarks with Lance Olsen on a five month fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Before he leaves, he begins a “trash diary: a constellation of sense, thought, memory, observation, fast fact scraps” which will become the book the reader travels through. Constellated are quotations from philosophers, etymologies, Olsen’s meditations on displacement, curiosity,…
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Contributors’ Corner: Trent England
Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Trent England, whose story “Patience Is the Most Passive Discipline” appears in 2.2. Trent England lives and writes in Salem, Massachusetts. He is currently working on both a play…
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Chapel of Inadvertent Joy, poetry by Jeffrey McDaniel, reviewed by Zachary Fishel
Jeffry McDaniel’s fifth book, Chapel of Inadvertent Joy, is an aptly titled collection of poems worth returning to again and again. The book is separated into three sections, each focusing on themes of love, middle-age, and how it feels to bite through life with wooden teeth. Which is fine for many writers, but McDaniel ups…
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Collected Alex, a novella by A.T. Grant, reviewed by Matt Weinkam
IIn part one of A.T. Grant’s three-part novella Collected Alex (winner of the 2012 Caketrain Chapbook Competition) a boy named Alex receives a dead body from his parents for his eighth birthday. “My parents held each other and watched as I inspected it. They were so excited,” Alex tells us. “What am I supposed to…
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Contributors’ Corner: Jane Liddle
Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Jane Liddle, whose story “The Last List” appears in 2.2. Jane Liddle waited at school bus stops in Newburgh, New York, learned to drive on the north…
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“My Ex Boyfriend Came to Me in a Dream and Told Me Everything I Had Must Fit into a Shoe Rack Inside of His Car”: Tanner Hadfield in Conversation with Elizabeth Mikesch
Elizabeth Mikesch is a prose stylist to shout about. Her debut collection Niceties: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me (Calamari Press) is a breathtaking work of fire, of hips, of sound, of saying. When I approached her about an interview, she asked if I felt like experimenting. I consented, though I wasn’t sure what she had in mind. I…
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In Pieces, short works by Marion Fayolle, reviewed by Nick Francis Potter
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Thirty-some-odd years ago, Will Eisner, in an effort to legitimize comics as a serious art form, pitched his collection, A Contract with God, as a “graphic novel.” Eisner didn’t coin the term, but he definitely popularized it, and while many comics scholars now recognize (rightly, by my estimation)…
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Reckoning, a novel by Rusty Barnes, reviewed by Dan Townsend
Rusty Barnes’s first novel, Reckoning, is the story of Richard, a fourteen-year-old country boy, who finds a woman naked and left for dead in the woods. Through this woman, Misty, Richard accesses the dark side of the small farming town where he lives. Motivated by teenage curiosity, hormones, and a fragile sense of down-home morality,…
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